The political dialogue of nature and grace : towards a phenomenology of chaste anarchism /
"The discourse between nature and grace finds its linguistic and existential podium in the political condition of human beings. As Caitlin Smith Gilson shows, it is in this arena that the perennial territorial struggle of faith and reason, God and man, man and state, take place; and it is here...
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New York, NY ; London :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc.,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Note on Context; Introduction: Stating the Problem; 1 Rebellion of the Gladiators: The Disappearance of Man's Open Nature; The reef; Humilitas occidit superbiam; A syllabus of errors; The bonfire of vanity; It would take a God: Aristotle's aporia in Nichomachean Ethics Book X; A gift upon a gift versus a philosophical fiction; The problem of matter and form in relation to nature and grace; The Christian hermeneutic of the Quinque Viae; 2 Calderon and the Chaste Anarchism; Calderon's phenomenological dialectic.
- A story of supernatural vice and consentTendebantque manus ripae ulterioris amore; Secondary causes and the problem of pure nature; The two rocks; Ex Nihilo: An analysis of the metaphysical and moral nothings; The descent into hell: The anti-historical terminus of man's created nothing; The quest of the new metaphysics: Laughter in another room; Justina's chaste anarchism: Paideia and the serious play of the cross; The theologos of metapolitics; No untimely kindness; The epoché of silence; Naming the unnamed; The conjuror and the denaturing descent.
- 3 The A-Historical Temporality of the Chaste AnarchismThe searchers; The non-sequential order of historical existence; A phenomenology of indications: Three ages of the non-sequential; Hegel, Bonaventure, and memory; Nature, grace, and the political problem of futurity; Death and non-sequential temporality; The polis beyond maieutics: The necessary evil; Hegel's betrayal; Dispossession and prayer; Waiting for whom?; The devaluation of the non-sequential; Man's prepositional ambiguity; Lost in translation; Pennies from heaven; The cities of man and God: The way of the penitent.
- Le Dieu Révolté: The impossibility of the Christian polisThe political silence of the descent into Hell; Home before dark; The Secular City: The dark at the top of the stairs; Separate tables; The man who isn't there; The political wager of the penitential gaze; The progressivist as ideologue versus the wayfarer as comprehensor; The tragicomedy of the Christian polis; 4 The Groundwork for the Christian Polis: Noli Me Tangere; Athens and Jerusalem: The case against metaphysics; The uninvited: Parmenides in chains; The unseen: An apotheosis of groundlessness.
- Somewhere east of Eden: In Job's balancesThe awakening: All things are possible; The power of the keys: Christ and the metaphysics of freedom; The unforgiven: In the bull of Phalaris; Epilogue: The Polis and the Seven Last Words of Christ; The society of the friends of God: Ever-built on Good Friday; Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit; It is finished; I thirst; My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?; Woman, behold your son. Behold your mother; Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise; Father, forgive them, they know not what they do; Bibliography; Index.
