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Using Martin Heidegger’s later philosophy as his springboard, Peter S. Dillard provides a radical reorientation of contemporary Christian theology. From Heidegger’s initially obscure texts concerning the holy, the gods, and the last god, Dillard extracts two possible non-metaphysical theologies: a theology of Streit and a theology of Gelassenheit. Both theologies promise to avoid metaphysical antinomies that traditionally hinder theology. After describing the strengths and weaknesses of each non-metaphysical theology, Dillard develops a Gelassenheit theology that ascribes a definite phenomenology to the human encounter with divinity. This Gelassenheit theology also explains how this divinity can guide human action in concrete situations, remain deeply consonant with Christian beliefs in the Incarnation and the Trinity, and shed light on the Eucharist and Religious Vocations. Seminal ideas from Rudolf Otto and Ludwig Wittgenstein are applied at key points. Dillard concludes by encouraging others to develop an opposing Streit theology within the non-metaphysical, Heidegerrian framework he presents.
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Peter S. Dillard is the author of Heidegger and Philosophical Atheology: A Neo-Scholastic Critique (2008), A Way into Scholasticism: A Companion to St. Bonaventure’s The Soul’s Journey into God (2011), Foundation and Restoration in Hugh of St. Victor’s De Sacramentis (2014), and numerous scholarly articles.
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Book Title: Non-Metaphysical Theology After Heidegger
Authors: Peter S. Dillard
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58480-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58479-3Published: 21 June 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95438-4Published: 30 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58480-9Published: 20 June 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 185
Topics: Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Christian Theology