Thinking the Unknowable : The Essential Louis Dupré

Dupré, Louis/ Casarella, Peter J. (EDT)

University of Notre Dame Press（2024/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 208 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780268207953
• DDC分類 194

Full Description

Written throughout Louis Dupré's life, Thinking the Unknowable explores the relationship between faith and metaphysics, charting the course for an innovative Christian philosophy of religion.

Louis Dupré's Thinking the Unknowable offers a sophisticated response to the subjectivist ills of modern philosophy. Drawing on a diverse host of philosophers, theologians, and phenomenologists, Dupré seeks to open up a space for faith in contemporary philosophy of religion by arguing that metaphysics cannot claim authority in the realm of the transcendent. Instead, Dupré shows that philosophers must learn to accommodate mystery in their metaphysical frameworks.

Edited and introduced by Peter J. Casarella, prominent theologian and student of Dupré, the book unfolds in four parts. Dupré establishes the foundations for a new theology of language, drawing inspiration from two sources: humanist theological hermeneutics and deist biblical spirituality. The second part addresses the idea of God in modern philosophy, taking Hegel's philosophy of religion as its starting point. The third deals with the phenomenology of religion, focusing primarily on the work of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. In the fourth part, Dupré turns to the concept of mysticism, offering a sophisticated reflection on the possibility of acknowledging a transcendent horizon to human knowing in a secular age. Readers of this volume will be guided across the bridge from philosophy to faith and back again, discovering new worlds of meaning and expressions of truth.

Contents

Foreword by Peter Casarella

1. Philosophy and Faith

Part 1. Farewell to a Symbolic World

2. The Modern Idea of Culture and Its Opposition to Its Classical and Medieval Origins

3. The Fragmentation of the Symbolic World

4. The Sources of Modern Atheism

Part 2. Philosophical Reinterpretations of Theology

5. Hegel's Spirit and the Religious Idea of God as Spirit

6. Philosophical Reflections on the Mystery of Creation

7. Evil and the Limits of Theodicy

8. Intimations of Immortality

Part 3. Phenomenology: Philosophy Reopens its Doors to Mystery

9. Phenomenology of Religion: Limits and Possibilities

10. Phenomenology and Religious Truth

11. The Enigma of Religious Art

12. Ritual: The Sacralization of Time

Part 4. Mysticism: The Silence of Faith

13. Is a Natural Desire of God Possible?

14. Mysticism and Philosophy

15. Justifying the Mystical Experience