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Title
Tillich and the Abyss : Foundations, Feminism, and Theology of Praxis.
ISBN
9783319336541
3319336541
9783319336534
3319336533
Publication Details
Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (201 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-33654-1 doi
Call Number
B1-5802
Dewey Decimal Classification
100
Summary
This book examines Paul Tillichs theological concept of the abyss by locating it within the context of current postmodern antifoundalist discussions and debates surrounding feminism, gender, and language. Sigridur Gudmarsdottir develops these tropes into a constructive theology, arguing that Tillich s idea of the abyss can serve as a necessary means of deconstructing the binaries between the theoretical and the practical in producing nihilistic relativism and the safe foundations of knowledge (divine as well as human). How does one search for a map and method through an abyss? In his writings, Tillich expressed the ambiguity and groundlessness of being, the depth structure of the human condition, and the reality of God as an abyss. The more we gaze into this abyss, the more we encounter the faults in our various foundations. This book outlines how Tillich s concept of the abyss creates greater opportunities for complexity and liminality and opens up a space where life and death, destruction and construction, fecundity and horror, womb and tomb, can coincide."
Note
This book examines Paul Tillichs theological concept of the abyss by locating it within the context of current postmodern antifoundalist discussions and debates surrounding feminism, gender, and language. Sigridur Gudmarsdottir develops these tropes into a constructive theology, arguing that Tillich s idea of the abyss can serve as a necessary means of deconstructing the binaries between the theoretical and the practical in producing nihilistic relativism and the safe foundations of knowledge (divine as well as human). How does one search for a map and method through an abyss? In his writings, Tillich expressed the ambiguity and groundlessness of being, the depth structure of the human condition, and the reality of God as an abyss. The more we gaze into this abyss, the more we encounter the faults in our various foundations. This book outlines how Tillich s concept of the abyss creates greater opportunities for complexity and liminality and opens up a space where life and death, destruction and construction, fecundity and horror, womb and tomb, can coincide."
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Dedication ; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Natal and€Nihilistic Theological Foundations; Gazing into the€Abyss; Abysmal Apathy: Himmelfarb, Milbank, and€Ward; Depth, Death, Desire: Jantzen and€Keller; Fourfold Abyss: Kataphatic, Affective, Speculative, €and€Apophatic; Wondrous Depths; Notes; Chapter 2: Kataphatic Identity and€Religious Symbolism; The Divine Source of€All Things; Tillichian Symbolics and€Feminist Mariologies; Kristeva and€the€Semiotic Maternal; Birth and€Breakthrough in€Meister Eckhart; Tillich's Maternal Breakthroughs; The Ugly, The€Gloomy, and€the€Beautiful; Notes.
Chapter 3: Affective Bodies and€Agape DesireTillichian Perversions and€the€Problem of€Biography; The Demonic, the€Divine, and€the€Irigarayan Fort-Da; The Repression and€Return of€the€Maternal; Eros and€Agape; Gaping Agape; Notes; Chapter 4: Khoric Speculations and€Maps of€Difference; Tillichian Wisdom and€Derridian Khora; Trajectories of€the€Abyss: Boehme and€Schelling; Resisting the€Gaze; Irigaray Speculates on€the€Mystics; Mapping the€Divine: Kristeva and€Corrington; Notes; Chapter 5: Apophatic Silence and€Displacements; The Birth Pangs of€Apophasis; Marian Symbols and€Apophatic Markers.
Dirty LipsNegation and€Non-Existing Women; Living Without a€Why; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
