Seeing the world and knowing God : Hebrew wisdom and Christian doctrine in a late-modern context / Paul S. Fiddes

Author: Fiddes, Paul S.
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Physical Description: 1 online resource

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Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE SETTING THE SCENE -- 1.The Cry for Wisdom -- 2.The Mood of the Late-Modern World -- 3.`Where Were You'? Self and Other -- pt. TWO WISDOM AS OBSERVATION AND PARTICIPATION -- 4.The Elusiveness of the World and the Limits of Wisdom -- 5.The Complexity of the World and the Extent of Wisdom -- 6.The Seeing Self and Wisdom as Observation -- 7.Hidden Wisdom: A Theology of Presence and Place -- pt. THREE WISDOM IN THE WORLD -- 8.Metaphor and Mystery in the Interpretation of Wisdom -- 9.Wisdom as a Search for the Sum of Things -- 10.The Text of the World and the Comprehensiveness of Wisdom -- 11.The Process of Learning and the Rejection of Wisdom -- CODA -- 12.Attunement to Wisdom: From Observation to Participation.

Summary

This creates a Christian theology of wisdom for the present day, in discussion with two sets of conversation-partners: the writers of the 'wisdom literature' in ancient Israel and the Jewish community in Alexandria; and the philosophers and thinkers of the late-modern age, among them Derrida, Levinas, Kristeva, Ricoeur, and Arendt.

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ISBN

9780191760211 (ebook)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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