Books in the Transcending Boundaries in Philosophy and Theology series

Looking at the dialogue between philosophy and theology, this book addresses the contemporary reshaping of intellectual boundaries, and explores human experience in a 'post-Christian' era. It points to ways of reconfiguring both traditional reason, faith oppositions and those between interpretation, text and language, and experience.

Who is God? Offering a reading of postliberal theology which is open to critical discussion with other types of theology, philosophy, and faith traditions, this book proposes a model of theological reflection that may be extended to the reality-claims of a wide range of doctrines and concepts.

After the postmodern turn, every tradition seeks the right to have their own rules of rational discourse. This title examines the basic assumptions behind well known types of Christian theology and seeks ways in which they might interact with one other and with other non-Christian traditions without capitulation of their identities.

Focusing on the history of ideas, this book explores important questions concerning knowledge in relation to philosophy, science, ethics and Christian faith. It contributes to the debate about the intellectual basis and integrity of Western culture, exploring controversial issues concerning the notions of modernity and post-modernity.

This book explores the significance of the Resurrection for human moral imagination and moral life. It shows that the Resurrection, contemplatively apprehended, shifts our ethically conditioned understanding of what it means to be human. It shifts our relationship to mortality and finitude.

Tracing a path through Soren Kierkegaard's writings, this book brings the reader into contact with the texts and purposes of this 19th century Danish writer and thinker.

Reflects on the intersections of environmental philosophy, environmental theology, and religion and ecology, stressing the importance of how place interprets us and how we interpret place. This work presents theology and religious studies on the issues of ecological restoration and the meaning of place.

Examines the transcendental dimension of Kant's philosophy as a positive resource for theology. This book shows that Kant's philosophy establishes three distinct grounds for transcendental theology, and evaluates the form and content of theology that emerges when Christian theologians adopt these grounds.

A fundamental question for theology is the question how we are to understand the claims that we make about God. The only language we can understand is the language we use to talk about human beings. This book explores the way the concept was evolved by Aristotle out of Greek mathematics as a technique for comparing 'things that were remote'.

Paul Ricoeur is one of the giants of contemporary continental philosophy and one of the most enduring and wide-ranging thinkers in the twentieth century, publishing major works ranging from existentialism and phenomenology to psychoanalysis, politics, religion and the theory of language. Richard Kearney offers a critical engagement with the work of Ricoeur, beginning with a general introduction to his hermeneutic philosophy. Part one explores some of the main themes in Ricouer's thought under six headings: phenomenology and hermeneutics; language and imagination; myth and tradition; ideology and utopia; evil and alterity; poetics and ethics. The second part comprises five dialogical exchanges which Kearney has conducted with Ricoeur over the last three decades (1977-2003), charting and explaining his intellectual itinerary. This book is aimed at a broad student readership as well as the general intelligent reader interested in knowing more about one of the most enduring major figures in contemporary continental philosophy.

This book presents the case for belief in both creation and evolution at the same time as rejecting creationism. Issues of meaning supply the context of inquiry; the book defends the meaningfulness of language about God, and also relates belief in both creation and evolution to the meaning of life. Meaning, it claims, can be found in consciously adopting the role of steward of the planetary biosphere, and thus of the fruits of creation.

Looking at the dialogue between philosophy and theology, this book addresses the contemporary reshaping of intellectual boundaries, and explores human experience in a 'post-Christian' era. It points to ways of reconfiguring both traditional reason, faith oppositions and those between interpretation, text and language, and experience.

Exploring the different points of view and 'tones of voice' adopted in theology for the meeting of religions, this book presents a contemporary philosophical and theological engagement with key issues of how different faiths might meet, of comparative philosophy of religion, the use of aesthetics.

Written by a panel of international contributors, this collection of essays teases out various strands of Zizek's thought concerning Christianity and religion and brings them into a wider conversation about the nature of faith.