If the philosophers of the Enlightenment had hoped to establish, once and for all, that reason is the primary source of human orientation, twentieth century philosophy has demonstrated all too clearly that reason is far from having clear boundaries. In this respect, Immanuel Kant's contemporaries and critics, Johann Georg Hamann and Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, look surprisingly modern. Faith is now increasingly recognized as intrinsic to social identity and thus no more capable of taking a permanently subordinate role to reason--whatever that may be--than reason is capable of an existence free from social embodiment. This collection of thirteen essays focuses upon major philosophical and theological debates from the past three hundred years. Written by leading international scholars, this remarkable text takes the reader through major transitions in the modern understanding of faith and reason. It thus provides an invaluable guide to the history of modern philosophical theology whilst informing readers why the relationship between faith and reason remains an issue of major social and philosophical importance.
If the philosophers of the Enlightenment had hoped to establish, once and for all, that reason is the primary source of human orientation, twentieth century philosophy has demonstrated all too clearly that reason is far from having clear boundaries. In this respect, Immanuel Kant's contemporaries and critics, Johann Georg Hamann and Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, look surprisingly modern. Faith is now increasingly recognized as intrinsic to social identity and thus no more capable of taking a permanently subordinate role to reason--whatever that may be--than reason is capable of an existence free from social embodiment. This collection of thirteen essays focuses upon major philosophical and theological debates from the past three hundred years. Written by leading international scholars, this remarkable text takes the reader through major transitions in the modern understanding of faith and reason. It thus provides an invaluable guide to the history of modern philosophical theology whilst informing readers why the relationship between faith and reason remains an issue of major social and philosophical importance.
Foreword
Heung-wah Wong
Introduction
Wayne Cristaudo
1 Faith and Reflexivity: Reflections on Language
and the “Semiotic Turn”
Christopher Hutton
2 The Destructive Potential of the God of Reason (Reimarus)
Englehard Weigl
3 The Material God in Diderot’s D’Alembert’s Dream
Miran Bozovic
4 Anthropologist of Enlightenment: Purity, Pollution,
and Forbidden Mixtures in Hamann’s Metacriticism
Peter J. Leithart
5 Hegel on Kant, Fichte, Jacobi:
Being Reasonable about Faith and Knowledge
Wayne Cristaudo
6 Beyond Paradox:
Faith and Reason in the Thought of Søren Kierkegaard
Murray Rae
7 Nature, Nurture and Nietzsche’s Faith in Life
Nalin Ranasinghe
8 Reason and Faith:
A Comparison of Immanuel Kant and Albert Schweitzer
Predrag Cicovacki
9 Faith and Reason: Shestov and Gilson
Mathew Del Nevo
10 Karl Barth: Reason Beyond Autonomy?
Phillip Tolliday
11 Consciousness and Transcendence:
Voegelin and Lonergan on the Reasonableness of Faith
Glenn Hughes
12 Reason and Violence in Girard’s Mimetic Theory:
The Anthropology of the Cross
Robert Hamerton-Kelly
13 The Spirit Has Reasons That Rationalists Cannot Fathom:
The Emergence of Christian Dao-ology
in Late Twentieth Century China
Lauren Pfister
Index
Contributors
A highly accessible and illuminating collection... A book for everyone with an interest in modern religious belief confronting the challenges (and occasional pretensions) of reason. -Paul Crittenden, Ph.D., emeritus professor, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, The University of Sydney This is a wonderful collection orientated on what is, or ought to be, a key issue for any philosophical mind with an interest in issues of faith, religion and rationality. -Philip Quadrio, Ph.D., School of History and Philosophy, University of New South Wales
Wayne Cristaudo is the director of European studies at the
University of Hong Kong. He has written and edited a dozen books,
including Great Ideas in the Western Literary Canon (with Peter
Poiana) and Power, Love and Evil: Contribution to a Philosophy of
the Damaged. He is also the author of two forthcoming books:
Religion, Redemption, and Revolution and A Philosophical History of
Love.
Heung-wah Wong, Ph.D., is a cultural anthropologist and associate
professor of Japanese studies at the University of Hong Kong. He
has written numerous articles in leading scholarly journals and is
the author and editor of a number of books, including the highly
acclaimed Japanese Bosses, Chinese Workers. Wong is the series
editor of Culture, Society, and Business in East Asia and the
co-editor of St. Augustine: His Relevance and Legacy (with Wayne
Cristaudo). His focuses lie in business, the pornographic culture
in Asia, and creative industries in Asia.
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