Culture and transcendence
Subtitle: a typology of transcendence
By: edited by Wessel Stoker & W.L. van der Merwe
Series: Studies in philosophical theology -- 50; Studies in philosophical theology -- 50.
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leuven; Walpole, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9789042926349
Subjects: Transcendence (Philosophy); Congresses; Transcendence of God; Philosophical theology; Typology (Theology)
Description: The spectrum of religious experience and spirituality in contemporary postmodern, postsecular and religiously pluralized Western culture is extremely broad. Is it possible to trace the development, the shifts, breaches and patterns of religious and spiritual transcendence in this deeply diversified context? In this volume, a heuristic model of four types of transcendence is proposed and discussed. The four types are immanent transcendence, radical transcendence, radical immanence and transcendence as alterity. Of each type two examples from contemporary cultural discourses, ranging from theology and philosophy to popular culture are presented and the viability of the model as such is critically assessed. The pairs of examples show how different kinds of content are given to the same type. By illuminating this dialectic between formal categories of notions of transcendence and their specific content in various areas of culture, the book can aid further exploration of the preconditions, possibilities, difficulties and limitations of relating to and expressing (a) sense(s) of transcendence within a postmodern world.
Notes: International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references.