Chapter Three: Are Finite and Infinite Love the Same? Erich Przywara and Jean-Luc Marion of Analogy and Univocity
Chapter Four: The World Seen from the Outside
Chapter Five: Between the Homunculus Fallacy and Angelic Cognitive Dissonance in the Explanation of Evil: Milton’s Poetry and Luzzatto’s Kabala
Chapter Six: Evil and Finitude
Chapter Seven: Philosophy and Theology: Emmanuel Falque and the New Theological Turn
Chapter Eight: Embracing Finitude: Falque’s Phenomenology of the Suffering
Chapter Nine: On Hanosis: Kierkegaard on the Move from Objectivity to Subjectivity in the Sin of David
Chapter Ten: Kierkegaardian Deconstruction and the Paradoxes of Fait
Chapter Eleven: Paul Ricoeur on Mythic-Symbolic Language: Towards a Post-Theodical Understanding of the Problem of Evil
Chapter Twelve :The Fault of Forgiveness: Fragility and Memory of Evil in Volf and Ricoeur
Chapter Thirteen: Circulus Vitiosus Existentiae: Ricoeur’s Circular Hermeneutics of Evil
Bruce Ellis Benson is Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Loyola Marymount University and Executive Director of the Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology. Recent publications include Liturgy as a Way of Life: Embodying the Arts in Christian Worship (Baker Academic, 2013) and The New Phenomenology: A Philosophical Introduction (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), co-authored with J. Aaron Simmons. He is the author or editor of twelve books, and serves as an editor of the Eerdmans book series “Prophetic Christianity.”
B. Keith Putt is Professor of Philosophy at Samford University. He is co-editor of The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion (Indiana UP, 2014) and editor of Gazing Through a Prism Darkly: Reflections on Merold Westphal’s Hermeneutical Epistemology (Fordham UP, 2009). He has authored several articles on deconstruction, hermeneutics, and Philosophy of Religion, primarily focusing on the post-secular thought of John D. Caputo.
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 to the phenomenology of religion, with contributions across religions and intellectual traditions.