Humanity s creative capacity has never been more unsettling than it is at our current moment, when it has ushered us into new technological worlds that challenge the very definition of the human. Those anxious to safeguard the human against techno-scientific threats often appeal to religious traditions to protect the place and dignity of the human. But how well do we understand both theological tradition and today s technological culture? In "The Indiscrete Image, "Thomas A. Carlson challenges our common ideas about both, arguing instead that it may be humanity s final lack of definition that...
Humanity s creative capacity has never been more unsettling than it is at our current moment, when it has ushered us into new technological worlds tha...
Jean-Luc Marion is one of the world's foremost philosophers of religion as well as one of the leading Catholic thinkers of modern times. In "God Without Being," Marion challenges a fundamental premise of traditional philosophy, theology, and metaphysics: that God, before all else, must be. Taking a characteristically postmodern stance and engaging in passionate dialogue with Heidegger, he locates a "God without Being" in the realm of "agape," or Christian charity and love. If God is love, Marion contends, then God loves before he actually is. First translated into English in 1991, "God...
Jean-Luc Marion is one of the world's foremost philosophers of religion as well as one of the leading Catholic thinkers of modern times. In "God W...
Reveals a religiously diverse pre-industrial society in the Middle East, broadening studies of global Christianity and challenging Islamic history's exceptionalism.
Reveals a religiously diverse pre-industrial society in the Middle East, broadening studies of global Christianity and challenging Islamic history's e...
Drawing on a rich variety of sources, Carlson explores Christianity in fifteenth-century Iraq and opens new possibilities for understanding this religiously-diverse pre-industrial society and culture. This book expands the possibilities for global Christianity and shows that 'Islamic Civilization' can't be understood through Muslim sources alone.
Drawing on a rich variety of sources, Carlson explores Christianity in fifteenth-century Iraq and opens new possibilities for understanding this relig...