Beyond Vision and Obedience. Rethinking Theological Epistemology: Theological Reflections on Rationality and Agency with Special Reference to Paul Ricoeur and G.W.F. Hegel [Paperback]

The present study seeks to respond theologically to current discussions about ideas of self from the perspective of God’s action in and towards the world. Its aim is to trace a view of rationality that follows the drama of God’s engagement with the world, thus involving dying and resurrection, ascesis and abundance, suffering witness and Eucharistic communion. Since, as Calvin notes, knowledge of God and knowledge of self are intimately bound together, this exercise of discerning the shape of a theological rationality in the present arena of competing promises of meaning and truth is carried out on two levels: the theo-logical and the anthropological.

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I: The Hermeneutical Self. From Meaning to Revelation. Reflections on Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutical Project
1: The Search for Foundation:From Reflexive Philosophy to Hermeneutics
2: The Ontological Horizon. Preface to a Transcendental Poetics?
3: Hermeneutics, Creation and the “Re-enchantment” of the World

Part II: The Absolute Self. Hegel’s Journey from Revelation to Meaning
4: Hegel the Philosopher of Revelation
5: The Unfolding of God’s Story: Revelation, History and Rationality in Hegel

Part III: The “Responsive” Self. Theological Rationality in Trinitarian Perspective
6: Trinitarian Description between Metaphysics and Hermeneutics
7: Epiphanies of Presence. On the “Return to the World”
8: Conclusions: Towards a Theological Epistemology Informed by a Trinitarian View of Agency

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