Ibn Gabirols Theology Of Desire
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| Author | : Sarah Pessin |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 285 |
| Release | : 2013-07-08 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1107032210 |
The first full-length treatment of Ibn Gabirol's philosophy in English, this study completely reinvents the medieval author of the Fountain of Life or Fons Vitae (known to many in the history of philosophy by his Latinized name, Avicebron). Developing Ibn Gabirol's vision in terms of a "Theology of Desire," the book rescues the voice of the eleventh-century Jewish poet-philosopher from centuries of misreadings as it sets out to examine the role of love, desire, and ethical self-transformation in medieval Jewish Neoplatonism.
| Author | : José Francisco Morales Torres |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 227 |
| Release | : 2023-04-04 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1793637490 |
In Wonder as a New Starting Point for Theological Anthropology: Opened by the World, José Francisco Morales Torres constructs a new theological anthropology that begins with wonder. He contends that the visceral experience of wonder is an opening up of the human by an excess that saturates the world. This opened-by-ness points to a transforming receptivity as the basis of the person and to an extravagant Generosity that grounds all creation. Thus, wonder, which is grounded in generous Excess, is not only a gift but a demand: it calls for a liberative praxis that resist the forces that flatten the fullness of life into what is ‘useful’ and profitable and that reduce the limitless worth of fellow humans to mere commodities to be exploited and exchanged at the altar of the idolatrous ‘Market’. Wonder reveals a primordial receptivity in the human person, which demands of us an ethic of sustainability that does not reduce the other to commodity, a vulnerability that risks being opened by the other, a commitment to solidarity and liberation that resist the forces of an insatiable, idolatrous Market that seeks “only to steal and kill and destroy.”
| Author | : Sarah Pessin |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 285 |
| Release | : 2013-07-08 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1107245052 |
Drawing on Arabic passages from Ibn Gabirol's original Fons Vitae text, and highlighting philosophical insights from his Hebrew poetry, Sarah Pessin develops a 'theology of desire' at the heart of Ibn Gabirol's eleventh-century cosmo-ontology. She challenges centuries of received scholarship on his work, including his so-called Doctrine of Divine Will. Pessin rejects voluntarist readings of the Fons Vitae as opposing divine emanation. She also emphasizes pseudo-Empedoclean notions of 'divine desire' and 'grounding element' alongside Ibn Gabirol's use of a particularly Neoplatonic method with apophatic (and what she terms 'doubly apophatic') implications. In this way, Pessin reads claims about matter and God as insights about love, desire, and the receptive, dependent and fragile nature of human beings. Pessin reenvisions the entire spirit of Ibn Gabirol's philosophy, moving us from a set of doctrines to a fluid inquiry into the nature of God and human being – and the bond between God and human being in desire.
| Author | : Michael Fagenblat |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 389 |
| Release | : 2017-02-27 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0253025044 |
Negative theology is the attempt to describe God by speaking in terms of what God is not. Historical affinities between Jewish modernity and negative theology indicate new directions for thematizing the modern Jewish experience. Questions such as, What are the limits of Jewish modernity in terms of negativity? Has this creative tradition exhausted itself? and How might Jewish thought go forward? anchor these original essays. Taken together they explore the roots and legacies of negative theology in Jewish thought, examine the viability and limits of theorizing the modern Jewish experience as negative theology, and offer a fresh perspective from which to approach Jewish intellectual history.
| Author | : James A. Diamond |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 346 |
| Release | : 2012-08-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9004233504 |
How does the 'medieval' function as a bearer of Jewish identity in a changing secular world? Each chapter in this work addresses a different Jewish return to the medieval by using a language of renewal.
| Author | : David J. Brewer |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 2021-09-21 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1725258463 |
Interreligious dialogue that strives for both hospitality and honest discussion of difference! Is it possible to have both? Is it possible for religious traditions to engage one another in a spirit of humility, while also working together toward mutual descriptions of God and the world? This is the goal of this book, to find points at which each of the religious traditions are vulnerable and open enough to listen to each other and to help each other toward a shared description of reality. If you share these concerns—concerns for interfaith dialogue as well as for deeply held notions of conviction and truth—then the invitation is open for mutual constructive engagement.
| Author | : Brian Ogren |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2016-08-22 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9004330631 |
In The Beginning of the World in Renaissance Jewish Thought, Brian Ogren offers a deep analysis of late fifteenth century Italian Jewish thought concerning the creation of the world and the beginning of time. Ogren’s book is the very first to seriously juxtapose the thought of the great Jewish thinker Yohanan Alemanno, Alemanno’s famed Christian interlocutor, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the important Iberian exegete active in Italy, Isaac Abravanel, and Abravanel’s renowned philosopher son Judah, known as Leone Ebreo. By bringing these thinkers together, this book presents a new understanding of early modern uses of Jewish texts and hermeneutics. Ogren successfully demonstrates that the syntheses of philosophy and Kabbalah carried out by these four intellectuals in their quests to understand the beginning itself marked a new beginning in Western thought, characterized by simultaneous continuity and rupture.
| Author | : Geoffrey D. Claussen |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 427 |
| Release | : 2023-08-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1438493924 |
What is good character? What are the traits of a good person? How should virtues be cultivated? How should vices be avoided? The history of Jewish literature is filled with reflection on questions of character and virtue such as these, reflecting a wide range of contexts and influences. Beginning with the Bible and culminating with twenty-first-century feminism and environmentalism, Jewish Virtue Ethics explores thirty-five influential Jewish approaches to character and virtue. Virtue ethics has been a burgeoning field of moral inquiry among academic philosophers in the postwar period. Although Jewish ethics has also flourished as an academic (and practical) field, attention to the role of virtue in Jewish thought has been underdeveloped. This volume seeks to illuminate its centrality not only for readers primarily interested in Jewish ethics but also for readers who take other approaches to virtue ethics, including within the Western virtue ethics tradition. The original essays written for this volume provide valuable sources for philosophical reflection.
| Author | : Yoav Meyrav |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 318 |
| Release | : 2020-05-05 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 3110618834 |
The Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies mirrors the annual activities of visiting fellows, staff, and affiliates of the Maimonides Centre of Advanced Studies—Jewish Scepticism, Universität Hamburg. Its main section contains scholarly articles about Judaism and scepticism, both individually and together, among different thinkers and within different areas of study. Each volume of the Yearbook also includes a section with an overview of the activities and events conducted at MCAS during a given academic year, as well as a report on its library.
| Author | : Robert Pasnau |
| Publisher | : Oxford Studies in Medieval Phi |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0198743793 |
Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy showcases the best scholarly research in this flourishing field. The series covers all aspects of medieval philosophy, including the Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew traditions, and runs from the end of antiquity into the Renaissance. It publishes new work by leading scholars in the field, and combines historical scholarship with philosophical acuteness. The papers will address a wide range of topics, from political philosophy to ethics, and logic to metaphysics. OSMP is an essential resource for anyone working in the area.
