A Theology of Compassion: Metaphysics of Difference and the Renewal of Tradition

Davies, Oliver

ISBN 10: 0802821219 / ISBN 13: 9780802821218

Published by Eerdmans Pub Co (edition First Edition), 2003

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Synopsis:

The wholesale rejection of metaphysics today has become the test of the postmodern. In this groundbreaking volume Oliver Davies argues for a renewal of metaphysics, as the language of createdness, based not in a return to outmoded concepts of essence but in a dynamic new understanding of ontology as narrative and performance. This repairing of the Western metaphysical tradition is grounded both in the divine self-naming in Exodus which, for the rabbis, identified God's presence in the world with God's compassionate acts and in the compassionate resistance of Etty Hillesum and Edith Stein to the violence of the Holocaust. Building on a new metaphysics of compassion that is attentive to the histories of the contemporary world, Davies offers a renewed systematic theology of divine speech and relation, focused in Jesus Christ, who, as the triadic "Word" of God, speaks creatively at the heart of human culture and action and who, as the redeeming "Compassion" of God, regenerates the world.

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Theology of Compassion: Metaphysics of ...
Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co (edition First Edition)
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good
Edition: First Edition.