Questioning Back: The Overcoming of Metaphysics in Christian Tradition

O'Leary, Joseph S.

ISBN 10: 1498281443 / ISBN 13: 9781498281447

Published by Wipf and Stock, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Questioning Back: The Overcoming of Metaphysics in Christian Tradition
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1498281443
• ISBN 13: 9781498281447
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This is the first of three essays in fundamental theology--along with Religious Pluralism and Christian Truth (1996) and Conventional and Absolute Truth (2015)--which attempt to reassess the status of Christian doctrinal language within the contemporary "regime of truth." In light of Heidegger's "overcoming of metaphysics," it revisits the age-old tension between Athens and Jerusalem--between the metaphysical structures of the Greek mind and the texture of the biblical events of revelation and salvation. A deconstructive reading that traces this tension in classical Christian texts--continued in later studies. Including Christianisme et philosophie chez Origène, Éditions du Cerf, 2011--clears the ground for a step back to biblical realities as they are apprehended in contemporary consciousness.

About the Author

Joseph S. O'Leary is an Irish theologian resident in Japan since 1983. He was a professor at Sophia University, Tokyo, from 1988 to 2015, and held the Roche Chair for Interreligious Research at Nanzan University, Nagoya, 2015-16. His current research is devoted to a philosophical and theological dialogue with Indian Mahayana Buddhism.