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Freedom Made Manifest
Freedom Made Manifest explicates Rahner’s theology of freedom by elucidating its configuration and sources. Much of its inquiry centers on the fundamental option: each human person’s eternal decision made, paradoxically, in time, as a definitive answer to God’s personally-tailored call to salvation. This idea stems from three principal sources: Catholic conversations with transcendental-idealist philosophy, penitential theology and practice, and Ignatian spirituality. Rahner’s unique redeployment of these sources inflects the fundamental option with theologies of concupiscence, mercy and forgiveness (especially as ecclesially mediated), and devotion to Jesus Christ. Awareness of these inflections can show how Rahner’s theology of freedom may assist in theological reflection on freedom’s susceptibility to injury and trauma.
At the Limits of the Secular
This volume presents an integrated collection of constructive essays by eminent Catholic scholars addressing the new challenges and opportunities facing religious believers under shifting conditions of secularity and "post-secularity." Using an innovative "keywords" approach, At the Limits of the Secular is an interdisciplinary effort to think through the implications of secular consciousness for the role of religion in public affairs. The book responds in some ways to Charles Taylor's magnum opus, A Secular Age, although it also stands on its own. It features an original essay by David Tracy -- the most prominent American Catholic theologian writing today -- and groundbreaking contributions by influential younger theologians such as Peter Casarella, William Cavanaugh, and Vincent Miller. CONTRIBUTORS William A. Barbieri Jr. Peter Casarella William T. Cavanaugh Michele Dillon Mary Doak Anthony J. Godzieba Slavica Jakelic J. Paul Martin Vincent J. Miller Philip J. Rossi Robert J. Schreiter David Tracy
Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain
Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain gathers a series of studies on the interplay between gender, sanctity and exemplarity in regard to literary production in the Iberian peninsula. The first section examines how women were con¬strued as saintly examples through narratives, mostly composed by male writers; the second focuses on the use made of exemplary life-accounts by women writers in order to fashion their own social identity and their role as authors. The volume includes studies on relevant models (Mary Magdalen, Virgin Mary, living saints), means of transmission, sponsorship and agency (reading circles, print, patronage), and female writers (Leonor López de Córdoba, Isabel de Villena, Teresa of Ávila) involved in creating textual exemplars for women. Contributors are: Pablo Acosta-García, Andrew M. Beresford, Jimena Gamba Corradine, Ryan D. Giles, María Morrás, Lesley K. Twomey, Roa Vidal Doval, and Christopher van Ginhoven Rey.
Reading Religious Ritual with Ricoeur
Reading Religious Ritual with Ricoeur: Between Fragility and Hope creates a dialogue between Ricœur’s hermeneutic philosophy and the interpretation of human ritual practices, especially as such practices are manifested within the context of Christian liturgy. In the first part of the book, Christina M. Gschwandtner shows that Ricœur’s account of religion would be deepened if it were to take into account not only the biblical texts but also forms of liturgical expression and ritual actions. She challenges Ricœur’s early reading of the symbol and second naïveté, broadens his interpretation of biblical texts and faith to consider religious actions more fully, and suggests that ritual...
Poetry and the Religious Imagination
What is the role of spiritual experience in poetry? What are the marks of a religious imagination? How close can the secular and the religious be brought together? How do poetic imagination and religious beliefs interact? Exploring such questions through the concept of the religious imagination, this book integrates interdisciplinary research in the area of poetry on the one hand, and theology, philosophy and Christian spirituality on the other. Established theologians, philosophers, literary critics and creative writers explain, by way of contemporary and historical examples, the primary role of the religious imagination in the writing as well as in the reading of poetry.
The Achievement of Hans Urs von Balthasar
In The Achievement of Hans Urs von Balthasar, Matthew Levering has written a book for theologically educated readers who mistrust von Balthasar or who mistrust von Balthasar’s critics. The book shows that von Balthasar’s critics can and should benefit both from the rich and wide-ranging conversations that mark his trilogy and from the critical and constructive engagement with German philosophical modernity offered by the trilogy. In addition, Levering hopes to show that those who mistrust von Balthasar’s critics need to be more Balthasarian in their response to criticisms of the Swiss theologian.
Dante, un camino de setecientos años
No bastaría una biblioteca para contener las ideas que surgen de la lectura de la obra de Dante. Pero quizás sí una palabra que la propia Divina Comedia nos ofrece: trasumanar, transhumanar, superar los límites de lo humano en un sentido muy lejano al mundo cotidiano, y sin embargo, convergente con él. El viaje, su viaje, es hacia Dios, pero también hacia un hombre futuro. El hombre que será, de sí mismo, autor y obra, y que construirá dolorosamente en el exilio, encadenando tercetos que serán imágenes. Imágenes de la más pura humanidad, que incorporarán paso a paso oscuridad primero, y luego luz, hasta hacerse incandescente. Hasta ser epifanías. Por eso, el hombre Dante es po...
Fenomenología del acto creador
Fenomenología del acto creador. Literatura, arte y filosofía indaga en el acto creador a partir de los prismas de la fenomenología y de la estética. Para el espectador, estar ante una obra de arte es estar ante un milagro, un misterio inexplicable: ¿Cómo crea el músico una canción? ¿de dónde surgen las imágenes que se imprimen en el lienzo? ¿cómo una obra llega a ser? Sin embargo, la creación artística no es producto de un genio, abstraído de cualquier condicionamiento cultural o social, sino que supone una serie de estratos histórico-culturales que limitan las posibilidades fácticas de la obra. El acto creador acontece en una tensión fenomenológica entre herencia y noved...
Hildegarda de Bingen
¿Quién es Hildegarda de Bingen? ¿Quién es esta mujer que, ausente en las historias de la Filosofía, se ganó un lugar, curiosamente, entre los "Padres de la Iglesia"? Teóloga, visionaria, profeta, compositora, mística, sanadora, santa y doctora de la Iglesia, científica, poeta, dramaturga... ¿filósofa? En Hildegarda conviven la intimidad del claustro con la sonoridad de la prédica pública. La contemplación y exploración del mundo natural, con la experiencia mística de la visión interior. La armonía de la música que compuso para la danza de sus monjas en las fiestas religiosas, con la armonía del universo, donde danzan las esferas celestes. Por todo esto, en este volumen de la colección La otra palabra, Claudia D ́Amico nos ofrece las claves para reconocer la impronta filosófica en la obra de Hildegarda en el contexto del lejano siglo XII, tarea que pone de manifiesto la potencia de la palabra de esta filósofa de lo invisible.
Fenomenología de la sorpresa
Las sorpresas están omnipresentes en nuestras vidas. Son una especie de mini sobresaltos, micro tomas de conciencia que nos sacan del orden, de la rutina, de la costumbre o del aburrimiento. Nos convierten en personas sin pretensiones, abiertas, que asumen el riesgo de no saber, de perderse, de ser privadas de nuestras seguridades, de colapsar en nuestro centro más íntimo. La sorpresa, pequeña o grande, nos enfrenta a lo incomprensible e impone la ausencia de sentido, aunque signifique arrebato, vértigo, desesperación. Pero lo realmente sorprendente es que la sorpresa es una cuestión que apenas ha requerido la atención de la Filosofía. Demasiado ordinaria, demasiado anecdótica: mí...
