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"Godsends is William Desmond's newest addition to his masterwork on the borderlines between philosophy and theology. For many years, William Desmond has been patiently constructing a philosophical project-replete with its own terminology, idiom, grammar, dialectic, and its metaxological transformation-in an attempt to reopen certain boundaries: between metaphysics and phenomenology, between philosophy of religion and philosophical theology, between the apocalyptic and the speculative, and between religious passion and systematic reasoning. In Godsends, Desmond's newest addition to his ambitious masterwork, he presents an original reflection on what he calls the "companioning" of philosophy and religion. Throughout the book, he follows an itinerary that has something of an Augustinian likeness: from the exterior to the interior, from the inferior to the superior. The stations along the way include: a grappling with the default atheism prevalent in contemporary intellectual culture; an exploration of the middle space, the metaxu between the finite and the infinite; a dwelling with solitudes as thresholds between selving and the sacred; a meditation on idiot wisdom and transcendence in an East-West perspective; an exploration of the different stresses in the mysticisms of Aurobindo and the Arnhem Sermons; dream monologue of autonomy, a suite of Kantian and post-Kantian variations on the story of the prodigal son; a meditation on the beatitudes as exceeding virtue, in light of Aquinas's understanding; culminating in an exploration of Godsends as telling us something significant about the surprise of revelation, in word, idea, and story. Godsends is written for thoughtful persons and scholars perplexed about the place of religion in our time and hopeful for some illuminating companionship from relevant philosophers. It will also interest students of philosophy and religion, especially philosophical theology and philosophical metaphysics"--

Philosophy and religion. --- Philosophical theology.

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In ancient Greece, philosophers developed new and dazzling ideas about divinity, drawing on the deep well of poetry, myth, and religious practices even as they set out to construct new theological ideas. Andrea Nightingale argues that Plato shared in this culture and appropriates specific Greek religious discourses and practices to present his metaphysical philosophy. In particular, he uses the Greek conception of divine epiphany - a god appearing to humans - to claim that the Forms manifest their divinity epiphanically to the philosopher, with the result that the human soul becomes divine by contemplating these Forms and the cosmos. Nightingale also offers a detailed discussion of the Eleusinian Mysteries and the Orphic Mysteries and shows how these mystery religions influenced Plato's thinking. This book offers a robust challenge to the idea that Plato is a secular thinker.

Philosophy and religion --- History. --- Plato. --- Plato --- Religion.

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"Muss die Theologie, wenn sie sich selber finden will, in radikale Opposition zur Philosophie treten? Wenn ja, was bedeutet diese Opposition für die eine und die andere Seite? Die Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes zeigen, dass Luther nicht nur ein Beispiel des Streits der beiden Disziplinen, sondern der Höhepunkt ihrer Auseinandersetzung ist."

Philosophy and religion --- Luther, Martin, --- Influence

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By bringing together the work of Tanabe Hajime, the Japanese philosopher of the Kyoto School, and William Desmond, the contemporary Irish philosopher, this book offers an important intervention into comparative philosophy and a clear presentation of contemporary solutions to the problems of the philosophy of religion. Takeshi Morisato demonstrates that while they draw their inspiration form the different religious traditions of Christianity and Mahayana Buddhism, both thinkers successfully reconfigure the relation of faith and reason. -- Back cover.

Philosophy and religion --- Philosophy and religion --- Philosophy and religion. --- Philosophy, Comparative. --- Philosophy, Comparative. --- History --- History --- Desmond, William, --- Desmond, William, --- Tanabe, Hajime, --- Tanabe, Hajime, --- 1900-1999. --- Ireland. --- Japan.

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"This unique edited collection illuminates Paul Ricoeur's engagement with Scripture. The contributors include one of the primary translators, several who studied at the University of Chicago, and some of this generation's noted Ricoeur scholars. The essays discuss Hebrew and Christian Scripture, hermeneutics, and biblical scholarship"--

Philosophy and religion --- Hermeneutics --- Ricœur, Paul, - 1913-2005