Paul Ricoeur between Theology and Philosophy

Paul Ricoeur between Theology and Philosophy
Author: Boyd Blundell
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2010-05-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0253004357

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Paul Ricoeur (1913--2005) remains one of philosophy of religion's most distinctive voices. Ricoeur was a philosopher first, and while his religious reflections are very relevant to theology, Boyd Blundell argues that his philosophy is even more relevant. Using Ricoeur's own philosophical hermeneutics, Blundell shows that there is a way for explicitly Christian theology to maintain both its integrity and overall relevance. He demonstrates how the dominant pattern of detour and return found throughout Ricoeur's work provides a path to understanding the relationship between philosophy and theology. By putting Ricoeur in dialogue with current, fundamental, and longstanding debates about the role of philosophy in theology, Blundell offers a hermeneutically sensitive engagement with Ricoeur's thought from a theological perspective.

Paul Ricoeur Between Theology and Philosophy

Paul Ricoeur Between Theology and Philosophy
Author: Boyd Blundell
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2010-05-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0253221900

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Introduction -- Part I: The main road -- Fundamental loyalties -- Theology, hermeneutics, and Ricoeur's double life -- Part II: Detour -- Prefiguration : the critical arc and descriptive identity -- Configuration : the narrative arc and narrative identity -- Refiguration : Ricoeur's "little ethics"--Part III: Return -- Chalcedonian hermeneutics -- Theological anthropology : removing brackets -- Conclusion.

Paul Ricoeur Between Theology and Philosophy

Paul Ricoeur Between Theology and Philosophy
Author: Boyd Blundell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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Introduction -- Part I: The main road -- Fundamental loyalties -- Theology, hermeneutics, and Ricoeur's double life -- Part II: Detour -- Prefiguration : the critical arc and descriptive identity -- Configuration : the narrative arc and narrative identity -- Refiguration : Ricoeur's "little ethics"--Part III: Return -- Chalcedonian hermeneutics -- Theological anthropology : removing brackets -- Conclusion.

Ricoeur and Theology

Ricoeur and Theology
Author: Dan R. Stiver
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2012-09-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567325563

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Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) has been heralded as one of the most notable philosophers of the twentieth century. Like a stone skipping across the philosophical pond, he would write a major work in one field, then move on to another. As a consequence, he is among the most inter-disciplinarian of philosophers whose work not only explores such areas as existentialism, phenomenology, hermeneutics, structuralism, psychoanalysis, metaphor, narrative, and political ethics; it also bridges the gulf between Continental and Anglo-American philosophy. Despite this diversity,one can identify continuous threads running through Ricoeur's work that make him a major representative of hermeneutical philosophy, developing it much further in a critical direction. One of the areas to which he contributed greatly, almost in passing, was the philosophy of religion, where he made notable contributions in the areas of symbol, metaphor and epistemology. Ricoeur's work has been appropriated in theology, but often in an indirect way. This book will help the reader grasp the breadth of a complex philosopher, indicating the increasing relevance and appropriation of Ricoeur's work in theology.

On Paul Ricoeur

On Paul Ricoeur
Author: Richard Kearney
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1351913859

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This volume begins with a brief overview of the most important features of Ricoeur's philosophical journey accompanied by a number of studies on the subject. The second part of the study is devoted to other issues in Ricoeur's work based upon five critical exchanges with the author over the last 25 years.

Evil

Evil
Author: Paul Ricoeur
Publisher: Continuum
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-06-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780826494764

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Where does evil come from? How is it that we do evil? This book falls into three parts. The fi rst part deals with the magnitude and complexity of the problem of evil from a phenomenological perspective. The second part investigates the levels of speculation on the origin and nature of evil. The third discusses thinking, acting and feeling in connection with evil. The discussion runs in the classic intellectual tradition from Augustine, through Hegel, Leibnitz, Kant, and Nietzsche. But the voice is always that of Paul Ricoeur himself, though he also refers to modern writers like Harold Kushner (When Bad Things Happen to Good People) and John K. Roth (Encountering Evil). Ricoeur considers here man's vulnerability to evil with depth and matchless sensitivity.

Interdisciplinary Interpretation

Interdisciplinary Interpretation
Author: Kenneth A. Reynhout
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2013-06-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0739180622

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The past fifty years has seen the emergence of an energetic dialogue between religion and the natural sciences that has contributed to a growing desire for interdisciplinarity among many constructive theologians. However, some have also resisted this trend, in part because it seems that the price one must pay for such engagement is much too high. Interdisciplinary work appears overly abstract and methodologically restrictive, with little room for systematic theologians self-consciously operating within a particular historical tradition. In Interdisciplinary Interpretation: Paul Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of Theology and Science,Kenneth A. Reynhout seeks to address this concern by constructing an alternative understanding of interdisciplinary theology based on the hermeneutical thought of Paul Ricoeur, generally recognized as one of the most interdisciplinary philosophers of the twentieth century. Appealing to Ricoeur’s view of interpretation as the dialectical process of understanding through explanation, Reynhout argues that theology’s engagement with the natural sciences is fundamentally hermeneutical in character. As such, interdisciplinary theologians can faithfully borrow meaning from the sciences through a process of “interdisciplinary interpretation,” a process that can honestly attend to the legitimate challenges posed by the natural sciences without automatically requiring the evacuation of theological norms and convictions. Reynhout’s creative appropriation of Ricoeur’s hermeneutics succeeds in providing a novel interdisciplinary vision, not only for theology but also for interdisciplinary work in general.

Ricoeur's Hermeneutics of Religion

Ricoeur's Hermeneutics of Religion
Author: Brian Gregor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2018-11-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781498584739

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In this important new book, Brian Gregor gives a comprehensive account of Paul Ricoeur's philosophy of religion, which focuses on the regeneration of human capability. Gregor documents the thinkers, movements, and themes that shaped Ricoeur's thought and gives a critical examination of Ricoeur's philosophical interpretation of religion.

Ricoeur on Moral Religion

Ricoeur on Moral Religion
Author: James Carter
Publisher: Oxford Theology and Religion M
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2014
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0198717156

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In Ricoeur on Moral Religion, James Carter argues that Paul Ricoeur's later philosophical writings provide a highly instructive interpretive key with which to assess his philosophical project as a whole. This first systematic study of the "later Ricoeur" offers a critical yet sympathetic reconstruction of Ricoeur's hermeneutics of ethical life, which demonstrates his significant contribution to contemporary philosophy of religion and moral philosophy. What emerges is a clear and distinctive moral religion that binds humans together universally on the basis of the life they share as capable beings. Carter also uncovers a hitherto unforeseen thread in Ricoeur's writings concerning ethical life, pulled through his own readings of Spinoza, Aristotle, and Kant. Ricoeur's hermeneutics is structured by a Kantian architectonic informed at different levels by these three philosophers, who ground a rich, holistic, and ultimately rationalist account of ethical life and religion that resists the trappings of both positivism and postmodernism.

Figuring the Sacred

Figuring the Sacred
Author: Paul Ricœur
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 358
Release:
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781451415704

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The thought of Paul Ricoeur continues its profound effect on theology, religious studies and biblical interpretation. The 28 papers contained in this volume constitute the most comprehensive overview of Ricoeur's writings in religion since 1970. Ricoeur's hermeneutical orientation and his sensitivity to the mystery of religious language offer fresh insight to the transformative potential of sacred literature, including the Bible.