James Kellenberger

Dying to Self and Detachment (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Exploring the religious category of dying to self, this book aims to resolve contemporary issues that relate to detachment. Beginning with an examination of humility in its general notion and as a religious virtue that detachment presupposes, Kellenberger draws on a range of ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary sources that address the main characteristics of detachment, including the work of Meister Eckhart, St. Teresa, and Simone Weil, as well as writers as varied as Gregory of Nyssa, Rabi'a al-Adawiyya, Sÿren Kierkegaard, Andrew Newberg, John Hick and Keiji Nishitani. Kellenberger explores the key issues that arise for detachment, including the place of the individual's will in detachment, the relationship of detachment to desire, to attachment to persons, and to self-love and self-respect, and issues of contemporary secular detachment such as inducement via chemicals. This book heeds the relevance of the religious virtue of detachment for those living in the twenty-first century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317147527
• Artikelnr.: 44991871

Autorenporträt

James Kellenberger has published several books in Religion/Philosophy of Religion addressing concerns with religious knowledge and religious plurality, as well as many articles on these and related religious subjects. From 1967 to 2008 he taught Philosophy at California State University, Northridge. In 2008 he became emeritus. His current concern with religious detachment goes beyond but also grows out of these previous concerns.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Humility
Chapter 2 Religious Humility
Chapter 3 Detachment
Chapter 4 Will and Self-Will
Chapter 5 Stress and Various Attachments
Chapter 6 Desire
Chapter 7 Stimuli
Chapter 8 Simulacra
Chapter 9 Peace and Joy
Chapter 10 Morality, Religion, and Spirituality
Chapter 11 Self-Respect and Self-Love
Chapter 12 Contemporary Detachment