This book seeks to exorcize the spectre of the Enlightenment by drawing on H. G. Gadamer's demonstration of `how little the traditions in which we stand are weakened' by the legacy of the Enlightenment. It then applies these insights to theology where the importance of tradition and the unity between theology and spirituality are rediscovered.
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CONTRIBUTORS: Andrew Louth
EAN: 9780198261964
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 254 g
HEIGHT: 218 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press
DATE PUBLISHED: 1989-10-26
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GENRE: RELIGION / Christian Theology / General
WIDTH: 138 cm
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Book Themes:
History of ideas, Philosophy of religion, Christianity, Theology
`a Yeatsian reverie'
Times Literary Supplement, 'Mr Louth writes like an angel'
Theology, `A most learned, well-written and provoking book, with some surprises for all'
Expository Times, 'It deserves to be widely studied and discussed ... Louth has given us a programme to occupy our attention for some time.'
John McIntyre, Religious Studies, 'The reader finds himself being drawn into a long and fascinating conversation in which poets meet philosophers, philosophers meet theologians, and theologians encounter historians and literary critics. Claudel, Goethe, T. S. Eliot, Gadamer, Polanyi, Marcel, Lossky, de Lubac, Torrance, to mention only some, all make their contribution.'
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