Grace and philosophy : understanding a gratuitous world /

Grace and philosophy : understanding a gratuitous world /

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Author / Creator:	Brown, Hunter, author.
Imprint:	Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2019]
Description:	158 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Grace (Aesthetics) Grace (Theology) Life. Wonder. Philosophy. Grace (Aesthetics) Grace (Theology) Life. Philosophy. Wonder.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11888243

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ISBN:	9780773556584 0773556583 9780773556591 0773556591 9780773557635 0773557636 9780773557642 0773557644
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Issued also in electronic format.
Summary:	"Philosophy has traditionally engaged the question of why there is something rather than nothing as a normal causal question. Such an approach, Hunter Brown proposes in Grace and Philosophy, does not do justice to the deep wonder and astonishment that the existence of the world elicits so widely among human beings. Such wonder has often been expressed in artistic and literary ways, including especially the language of grace which captures the striking gratuity of existence and the spontaneous, grateful response so often evoked by it. Since the modern period, however, Brown argues, there has been a questionable narrowing of philosophy which privileges formal reasoning and theory over an engagement of immediate experience. Detached expertise, impersonal scholarship, and preoccupation with data have swept aside simple wonderment about the extraordinary gratuity of existence, and the remarkable ways in which such wonderment has been expressed. Against the grain of such widespread developments Grace and Philosophy proposes a perspective that maintains a place of importance in philosophy for such wonder and for the many forms in which it has manifested itself."--
Other form:	Online version: Brown, Hunter. Grace and philosophy. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019 0773557636 9780773557635

Table of Contents:

Gratuity and philosophy
Gratuity and religion
Understanding gratuity
Modern philosophy
The return to life
Appendix: philosophy, religion and gratuity in Catholicism.