Confessions of a born-again pagan /

Confessions of a born-again pagan /

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Author / Creator:Kronman, Anthony T., author.
Imprint:New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]
©2016
Description:xii, 1161 pages ; 25 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Philosophy, Modern -- 21st century.
God.
Metaphysics.
God.
Metaphysics.
Philosophy, Modern.
Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10889192
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ISBN:0300208537
9780300208535
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:We live in an age of disenchantment. The number of self-professed "atheists" continues to grow. Yet many still feel an intense spiritual longing for a connection to what Aristotle called the "eternal and divine." For those who do, but demand a God that is compatible with their modern ideals, a new theology is required. This is what Anthony Kronman offers here, in a book that leads its readers away from the inscrutable Creator of the Abrahamic religions toward a God whose inexhaustible and everlasting presence is that of the world itself. Kronman defends an ancient conception of God, deepened and transformed by Christian belief--the born-again paganism on which modern science, art, and politics all vitally depend. Brilliantly surveying centuries of Western thought--from Plato to Augustine, Aquinas, and Kant, from Spinoza to Nietzsche, Darwin, and Freud--Kronman recovers and reclaims the God we need today.
Standard no.:40026416083
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Gratitude
  • 1. The Good of Gratitude: Dependence, Acceptance and Being at Home in the World
  • 2. A World of Rights: The Expulsion of Love and Gratitude from Public Life
  • 3. "Endless Gratitude So Burdensome" Christian Theology and Western Civilization
  • Part 2. Pride
  • 4. Greatness of Soul: Aristotle's Philosophy of Pride
  • 5. Givers and Takers: The Good of Self Sufficiency
  • 6. The Eternal and Divine: What Everything Desires
  • 7. The Best Life of All: Politics and Contemplation
  • 8. Friendship: Gratitude and Human Fulfillment
  • 9. The First Cosmopolitan: Plato's Discovery of an Invisible Self
  • 10. Preparatio Evangelica: Stoicism on the Way to Christian Thought
  • Part 3. Salvation
  • 11. Creation: Making, Begetting and Creating
  • 12. Will: Human Freedom and the Problem of Evil
  • 13. Grace: Divine Omnipotence and the Augustinian Dilemma
  • 14. "Not a Sparrow Falls": The Abolition of the Distinction between Form and Matter
  • 15. The Contingency of the World: That Whose Essence Is to Exist
  • 16. The Pagan Temptation: Aquinas and the Aristotelian Revival
  • 17. God Unchained: Ockham's Defense of Divine Freedom
  • 18. Theology of the Cross: The Lutheran Reformation
  • 19. The Hatred of Man: Augustine Redux
  • 20. The Absolute Spontaneity of Freedom: Kant's Christian Metaphysics
  • 21. Our Better Selves: The Morality of Autonomy
  • 22. God Becomes a Postulate: Reason, Freedom and Kant's Defense of Divine Grace
  • 23. Reaction: Joseph de Maistre's Revolt against Pride
  • 24. "Fantastic and Satanic": The Illiberal Theology of Donoso Cortes and Carl Schmitt
  • 25. The Oblivion of Being: Martin Heidegger's Reconstruction of Western Philosophy
  • 26. The Disenchantment of the World: Max Weber and the Problem of Nihilism
  • Part 4. Joy
  • 27. The Worm in the Blood: Spinoza's Conception of Science
  • 28. The God of Sufficient Reason: Physics after Spinoza
  • 29. "Endless Forms Most Beautiful": Darwin's Divine Biology
  • 30. The Navel of the Dream: Freud and the Science of the Mind
  • 31. "Man Is a God to Man": The Modern Research Ideal
  • 32. The World as an Aesthetic Phenomenon: Art, Truth and Morality in Nietzsche's Philosophy
  • 33. The Spider in the Moonlight: Nietzsche's Interpretation of the Will to Power as Art
  • 34. "The Gift of Transmigration": The Theology of the Modern Novel
  • 35. Genius and Sublimity: Painting since the Renaissance
  • 36. Theological, Not Political: John Rawls' Christian Defense of Liberal Democracy
  • 37. Democratic Vistas: Walt Whitman and the Divinity of Diversity
  • Epilogue: "Downward to Darkness, on Extended Wings"
  • Notes
  • Index
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