The Critique of Theological Reason
- Author: James P. Mackey, University of Edinburgh
- Date Published: March 2011
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521169233
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Far from merely reinvigorating relativism, postmodernism has detected and expressed in our time a powerful nihilating process of which truth and reality itself are the final casualties; and with these morality and religion. Beginning from the theological reaches of philosophy, this book argues that gods played a crucial part in modern philosophy, even when it was most critical of them; that the dominant nihilism of Derrida is really an excessive and misleading outcome of a contemporary philosophy which could otherwise resonate with all that is best in our evolutionary image of the universe; that moralists who turn to art in order to overcome the fact–value version of this deadly dualism do not thereby rule out religion; and that a Christian theology which recognises the evolutionary and historical conditions of faith and revelation is once again producing a theology that builds upon the best of contemporary philosophy and science.
Read more- Provides a deeper understanding of postmodernism, based upon an account of its philosophical ancestry in the modern era
- Makes a critical and creative use of the more theoretical or 'philosophical' views of the scientists in physics and psychology
- Offers a persuasive account of the most influential and promising movements in modern Christian theology
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Review of the hardback: 'Mackey paints on a large canvas with a rich and varied palette. If mind and reality have indeed gone missing from recent philosophy, Mackey's application of theological reason offers beguiling pointers to their restoration.' John Saxbee, Church Times
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- Date Published: March 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521169233
- length: 340 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.5kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. Historical-Critical: Prologue
1. The status quo: genesis
2. The status quo: current affairs
3. Beginnings: old and new
Part II. Critical-Constructive: Prologue
4. Morality and metaphysics
5. Art and the role of revelation
6. Revelation, religion and theology
Epilogue
Index.
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