The Fullness of the Logos in the Key of Life: Book II. Christo-Logos: Metaphysical Rhapsodies of Faith (Itinerarium mentis in deo)

ISBN-13: 9789400722569 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 200 str.

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

Opis

This highly personal account of a lifetime s spiritual and philosophical enquiry charts the author s journey of faith through contemporary culture. Distinguishing between what she posits as the universal and the rhapsodic logos, Tymieniecka interrogates concepts as varied as creativity and the media, joy and suffering, and truth and ambiguity. She contemplates the possibilities and limits of communication between human beings, and outlines what she calls the transnatural destiny of the human soul.The book asserts that unlike theory, which unfolds a logical continuity, and unlike dialogue, which is directed sequentially upward toward intellectual conclusions, the mode of reflection of the rhapsodic logos imposes no limits or caps upon its understanding. Instead, the logoic flow interlaces the rhapsodic cadences of our reflections on reality, in all their innumerable fluctuations, and sifts them to mold the intimate mind/soul inwardness that we experience as faith.The radiative meditations of this rhapsodic logos weave their way through the entanglements of the mystery of incarnation, the constitutive archetypes, the inwardly sacred, the transnatural destiny of the soul, and finally ascend the rhapsodic scales toward culminating faith in the Christo-Logos."

Unlike theory, which unfolds a logical continuity, and unlike dialogue, which is directed sequentially upward toward intellectual conclusions, the mode of reflection of the Rhapsodic Logos does not seal its understanding. To the contrary, here the universal logoic flow gathers our rhapsodic cadences of reflection on reality in all their innumerable fluctuations and sifts them to mold the intimate mind/soul inwardness that is faith. The Rhapsodic Logos in its radiations meditates through the entanglements of the mystery of incarnation, the constitutive archetypes, the inward sacred, the transnatural destiny of the soul, descending the rhapsodic scales toward culminating faith in the Christo-Logos.§This is a sequel to volume ANHU 100.

Spis treści

Preface
Pro-logos

Pars I

A period of preparation for faith
the first sermon of timothy the dispossessed:
the quest

Pars II

Glimmerings
The second sermon of timothy the dispossessed:
does god speak to the soul?

Pars III
The window upon the absolute
Pars IV
Opening the window to the absolute.-
Pars V
Retracing our steps to the cave, illuminating it
Pars VI
In the pursuit of truth
Pars VII
Embodiment: our inward drama situated within:
the world of life, nature, and the cosmos
the third sermon of timothy
The mystery of incarnationpars
Pars VIII
The constitutive archetypes:
the image of god emerging at the furthest borders of conscious dealings with our primordial condition ofcontingent existence
Pars IX
The inward sacredpars
Pars X
The transnatural destiny of the soul

O autorze

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka is a Polish-born American philosopher, one of the most important and continuously active contemporary phenomenologists, founder and president of "The World Phenomenology Institute".

Blurb

This highly personal account of a lifetime’s spiritual and philosophical enquiry charts the author’s journey of faith through contemporary culture. Distinguishing between what she posits as the ‘universal’ and the ‘rhapsodic’ logos, Tymieniecka interrogates concepts as varied as creativity and the media, joy and suffering, and truth and ambiguity. She contemplates the possibilities and limits of communication between human beings, and outlines what she calls the ‘transnatural destiny’ of the human soul.

The book asserts that unlike theory, which unfolds a logical continuity, and unlike dialogue, which is directed sequentially upward toward intellectual conclusions, the mode of reflection of the ‘rhapsodic logos’ imposes no limits or caps upon its understanding. Instead, the ‘logoic’ flow interlaces the rhapsodic cadences of our reflections on reality, in all their innumerable fluctuations, and sifts them to mold the intimate mind/soul inwardness that we experience as faith.

The radiative meditations of this ‘rhapsodic logos’ weave their way through the entanglements of the mystery of incarnation, the constitutive archetypes, the inwardly sacred, the transnatural destiny of the soul, and finally ascend the  rhapsodic scales toward culminating faith in the Christo-Logos.