Christopher Ben Simpson

Deleuze and Theology (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

What can a theologian do with Deleuze? While using philosophy as a resource for theology is nothing new, Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) presents a kind of limit-case for such a theological appropriation of philosophy: a thoroughly "modern" philosophy that would seem to be fundamentally hostile to Christian theology-a philosophy of atheistic immanence with an essentially chaotic vision of the world. Nonetheless, Deleuze's philosophy can generate many potential intersections with theology opening onto a field of configurations: a fractious middle between radical Deleuzian theologies that would think through theology and reinterpret it from the perspective of some version of Deleuzian philosophy and other theologies that would seek to learn from and respond to Deleuze from the perspective of confessional theology-to take from the encounter with Deleuze an opportunity to clarify and reform an orthodox Christian self-understanding.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780567530233
• Artikelnr.: 39417919

Autorenporträt

Christopher Ben Simpson is Professor of Philosophical Theology at Lincoln Christian University. Simpson is the author of Religion, Metaphysics and Postmodern (2009), The Truth is the Way: Kierkegaard's Theologia Viatorum (2010), Deleuze and Theology (2012), and Merleau-Ponty and Theology (T&T Clark, 2014).