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This collection addresses the perennial philosophical and theological issues of human finitude and the potentiality for evil. The contributors approach these issues from perspectives in Continental philosophy relating to phenomenology, philosophical hermeneutics, rabbinical traditions, drawing upon the work of Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, and Paul Ricoeur. While centering on the traditional theme of theodicy, this volume is also oriented ...

Leading evangelical thinkers engage--and are engaged by--the most explosive and discussed theorists of empire in the first decade of the twenty-first century, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri.

A distinguished philosopher examines the nature of liturgy and explores God's call to Christians to improvise as living works of art.

This collection of ground-breaking essays considers the many dimensions of prayer: how prayer relates us to the divine, prayers ability to reveal what is essential about our humanity, the power of prayer to transform human desire and action, and the relation of prayer to cognition. It takes up the meaning of prayer from within a uniquely phenomenological point of view, demonstrating that The Phenomenology of Prayer is as much about the charact...

This collection of ground-breaking essays considers the many dimensions of prayer: how prayer relates us to the divine, prayers ability to reveal what is essential about our humanity, the power of prayer to transform human desire and action, and the relation of prayer to cognition. It takes up the meaning of prayer from within a uniquely phenomenological point of view, demonstrating that The Phenomenology of Prayer is as much about the charact...

Being in Creation asks about the role of humans in the more-than-human world from the perspective of human creatureliness, a perspective that accepts as a given human finitude and limitations, as well as responsibility toward other beings and toward the whole of which they are a part.

Being in Creation asks about the role of humans in the more-than-human world from the perspective of human creatureliness, a perspective that accepts as a given human finitude and limitations, as well as responsibility toward other beings and toward the whole of which they are a part.

Words of Life is the sequel and companion to Phenomenology and the "Theological Turn, " edited by Dominique Janicaud, Jean-Francois Courtine, Jean-Louis Chrétien, Michel Henry, Jean-Luc Marion, and Paul Ricoeur. In that volume, Janicaud accuses Levinas, Henry, Marion, and Chrétien of "veering" from phenomenological neutrality to a theologically inflected phenomenology. By contrast, the contributors to this collection interrogate whether phenom...

Words of Life is the sequel and companion to Phenomenology and the "Theological Turn, " edited by Dominique Janicaud, Jean-Francois Courtine, Jean-Louis Chrétien, Michel Henry, Jean-Luc Marion, and Paul Ricoeur. In that volume, Janicaud accuses Levinas, Henry, Marion, and Chrétien of "veering" from phenomenological neutrality to a theologically inflected phenomenology. By contrast, the contributors to this collection interrogate whether phenom...

Bruce Ellis Benson puts forward the surprising idea that Nietzsche wasnever a godless nihilist, but was instead deeply religious. But how does Nietzscheaffirm life and faith in the midst of decadence and decay? Benson looks carefully atNietzsche's life history and views of three decadents, Socrates, Wagner, and Paul, to come to grips with his pietistic turn. Key to this understanding is Benson'sinterpretation of the powerful effect that Nietzs...

Examining the thought of key postmodern thinkers like Nietzsche, Derrida and Marion, Bruce Ellis Benson offers profound insight into the nature of conceptual idolatry and our need for the biblical revelation of God in Jesus Christ.