Listening For God. Religion And Moral Discernment

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 1998
Edition: First Edition

Description: 249 pages. Ex-Library. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. The Author Believes That Across A Wide Spectrum Of Outlooks, People Are Attracted To Religion, Yet Wary Of It. The Book Is Intended To Speak, In An Honest And Reflective Way, To Those Who Have Conflicting Feelings Aboutreligion.

Publishers Description: These essays, interdisciplinary in their approach, demonstrate the variegation of the religious imagination from the broadest historical and denominational scope. By examining the works of philosophers and theologians, of poets, painters, and novelists - from Saint Mark to Jacques Derrida and from Erasmus, Loyola, and Milton to Rouault and to Andrew Greeley - the essayists seek to answer the question Jesus posed to His disciples: "Who do you say that I am?" and to anticipate the equally contentious query: "How do you say who I am?" The essays together explore the religious imagination through the question of transcendence, using both the age-old Christian imagination and the contemporary world wherein the divisions between religious cultures are less fixed, an age of imaginative permeability where the absence of God is as present as the presence of God.

ISBN: 0823216365