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This book offers a novel account of grace framed in terms of Bruno Latour's "principle of irreduction." It thus models an object-oriented approach to grace, experimentally moving a traditional Christian understanding of grace out of a top-down, theistic ontology and into an agent-based, object-oriented ontology. In the process, it also provides a systematic and original account of Latour's overall project.
The account of grace offered here redistributes the tasks assigned to science and religion. Where now the work of science is to bring into focus objects that are too distant, too resistant, and too transcendent to be visible, the business of religion is to bring into focus objects that are too near, too available, and too immanent to be visible. Where science reveals transcendent objects by correcting for our nearsightedness, religion reveals immanent objects by correcting for our farsightedness. Speculative Grace remaps the meaning of grace and examines the kinds of religious instruments and practices that, as a result, take center stage.
Contents
Foreword by Levi R. Bryant List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Porting Grace 3. Grace 4. Conspiracy Theories 5. An Experimental Metaphysics 6. Proliferation 7. A Metaphysical Democracy 8. Methodology 9. A Flat Ontology 10. Local Construction 11. The Road to Damascus 12. The Principle of Irreduction 13. Transcendence 14. Dislocated Grace 15. Resistant Availability 16. Agency 17. Translation 18. Representation 19. Epistemology 20. Constructivism 21. Suffering 22. Black Boxes 23. Substances 24. Essences 25. Forms 26. Subjects 27. Reference 28. Truth 29. Hermeneutics 30. Laboratories 31. Science and Religion 32. Belief 33. Iconophilia 34. God 35. Evolution 36. Morals 37. The Two Faces of Grace 38. Spirit 39. Prayer 40. Presence 41. Conclusion Bibliography Index
