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100	1		_aDesmond, William, _d1951- _e1
245	1	0	_aGodsends : _bfrom default atheism to the surprise of revelation / _cWilliam Desmond.
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520	0		_a"Godsends is William Desmond's newest addition to his masterwork on the borderlines between philosophy and theology. For many years, William Desmond has been patiently constructing a philosophical project-replete with its own terminology, idiom, grammar, dialectic, and its metaxological transformation-in an attempt to reopen certain boundaries: between metaphysics and phenomenology, between philosophy of religion and philosophical theology, between the apocalyptic and the speculative, and between religious passion and systematic reasoning. In Godsends, Desmond's newest addition to his ambitious masterwork, he presents an original reflection on what he calls the "companioning" of philosophy and religion. Throughout the book, he follows an itinerary that has something of an Augustinian likeness: from the exterior to the interior, from the inferior to the superior. The stations along the way include: a grappling with the default atheism prevalent in contemporary intellectual culture; an exploration of the middle space, the metaxu between the finite and the infinite; a dwelling with solitudes as thresholds between selving and the sacred; a meditation on idiot wisdom and transcendence in an East-West perspective; an exploration of the different stresses in the mysticisms of Aurobindo and the Arnhem Sermons; dream monologue of autonomy, a suite of Kantian and post-Kantian variations on the story of the prodigal son; a meditation on the beatitudes as exceeding virtue, in light of Aquinas's understanding; culminating in an exploration of Godsends as telling us something significant about the surprise of revelation, in word, idea, and story. Godsends is written for thoughtful persons and scholars perplexed about the place of religion in our time and hopeful for some illuminating companionship from relevant philosophers. It will also interest students of philosophy and religion, especially philosophical theology and philosophical metaphysics"-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0	0	_aBy way of introduction : superiority beyond interiority -- _tDefault atheism -- _tThresholds between finitude and infinitude : the self-sublation and abjection of transcendence -- _tSolitudes: thresholds between selving and sacred -- _tIdiot wisdom and the intimate universal : immanence and transcendence in an intercultural perspective -- _tMysticism and the intimate universal : on the Arnhem Mystical Sermons and Sri Aurobindo -- _tDream monologues of autonomy : variations on the Prodigal Son -- _tExceeding virtue: on Aquinas and the beatitudes -- _tGodsends : on the surprise of revelation.
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650		0	_aPhilosophy and religion.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2746699&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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