The essential supernatural a dialogical study in Kierkegaard and Blondel / Maurice Ashley Agbaw-Ebai.
| Author/creator | Agbaw-Ebai, Maurice Ashley |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | South Bend, Indiana : St. Augustine's Press, [2022] |
| Description | xii, 386 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: A historical overview of the state of the question of the dialectics of relating with God, from the Enlightenment to the contemporary secular era -- The dialectics of the subjective and the supernatural being in Søren Kierkegaard -- The dialectics of the willing will and the supernatural in Blondel in the context of the modernist crisis regarding history and dogma -- Kierkegaard and Blondel on the subjective and God/the supernatural: convergence and divergence -- An analytic study for a philosophy of religion of the subjective and the phenomenon of the supernatural: perspectives for today -- Conclusion: The inevitability of the religious option in Kierkegaard and Blondel: overcoming contemporary deistic conceptions of the supernatural. |
| Abstract | "Soren Kirkegaard and Maurice Blondel are positioned together in a dialogue regarding the vision of the supernatural. Maurice Ashley Agbaw-Ebai draws from this a sharper image of the preeminent place religious experience possesses in human life and thought. Kirkegaard's lament of Christian lack of fervor and Blondel's concern that religion and philosophy no longer interact are both examined and Agbaw-Ebai concludes that they both indicate the same outcome: a "dominant leveling of society" that robs religion of its particularity. This devastates the individual because he is no longer challenged to seek a relationship with God and expose himself to the supernatural. The boundlessness of man must be acknowledged or else his actions will never be understood, and religious experience and philosophy must coexist with mutual reference or self-knowledge will never amount to the discovery of supernatural destiny. And this, asserts Agbaw-Ebai, is the shared urgency of both Kirkegaard and Blondel. Like these philosophers who have preceded him, Agbaw-Ebai exhorts us to never allow the sense of our relation to the supernatural as a settled matter. The philosophy of religion we have inherited does not protect us from having to confront our own subjectivity with autonomy: to be God without God and against God, or to be God with and through God"-- Amazon.com. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-386). |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021952931 |
| ISBN | 1587312409 (hardcover : alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | 9781587312403 (hardcover : alkaline paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |