Critique of Theological Reason
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521772938
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 12/10/2000
Width: 15.2 cm
Height: 22.9 cm
Far from merely reinvigorating relativism, postmodernism has detected and expressed in our time a powerful nihilating process of which truth and reality itself are the final casualties; and with these morality and religion. Beginning from the theological reaches of philosophy, this book argues that gods played a crucial part in modern philosophy, even when it was most critical of them; that the dominant nihilism of Derrida is really an excessive and misleading outcome of a contemporary philosophy which could otherwise resonate with all that is best in our evolutionary image of the universe; that moralists who turn to art in order to overcome the fact–value version of this deadly dualism do not thereby rule out religion; and that a Christian theology which recognises the evolutionary and historical conditions of faith and revelation is once again producing a theology that builds upon the best of contemporary philosophy and science.
Part I. Historical-Critical: Prologue; 1. The status quo: genesis; 2. The status quo: current affairs; 3. Beginnings: old and new; Part II. Critical-Constructive: Prologue; 4. Morality and metaphysics; 5. Art and the role of revelation; 6. Revelation, religion and theology; Epilogue; Index.
Review of the hardback: 'Mackey paints on a large canvas with a rich and varied palette. If mind and reality have indeed gone missing from recent philosophy, Mackey's application of theological reason offers beguiling pointers to their restoration.' John Saxbee, Church Times