Continental philosophy and theology
By: Colby Dickinson
Series: Brill Research Perspectives: Theology; Brill research perspectives
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 105
ISBN-13: 9789004361270
Subjects: Philosophical theology; Continental philosophy
Description: Continental philosophy underwent a ?return to religion? or a ?theological turn? in the late 20th century. And yet any conversation between continental philosophy and theology must begin by addressing the perceived distance between them: that one is concerned with destroying all normative, metaphysical order (continental philosophy?s task) and the other with preserving religious identity and community in the face of an increasingly secular society (theology?s task). Colby Dickinson argues in Continental Philosophy and Theology rather that perhaps such a tension is constitutive of the nature of order, thinking and representation which typically take dualistic forms and which might be rethought, though not necessarily abolished. Such a shift in perspective even allows one to contemplate this distance as not opting for one side over the other or by striking a middle ground, but as calling for a nondualistic theology that measures the complexity and inherently comparative nature of theological inquiry in order to realign theology?s relationship to continental philosophy entirely. ship.