RT Article
T1 Prayerful Dispossession and the Grammar of Thinking Theologically: Sarah Coakley and Gillian Rose
JF New blackfriars
VO 95
IS 1060
SP 662
OP 673
A1 Kirkland, Scott
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2014
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1780355009
AB Gillian Rose's re-thinking of Hegel in the wake of twentieth century ‘right’ and ‘left’ wing Hegelianisms has offered occasion for a recovery of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit as more than simply the narration of the way consciousness absorbs its objects, as textbook accounts often suggest. Rose's suggestion is that Hegel offers a program of radical criticism that destabilises the modern ego in speculative thought itself. Sarah Coakley's recent first volume, of a proposed four, of her systematic theology triangulating Trinity, prayer and dispossessive spiritual practices provides a fruitful dialogue partner for Rose's project in that Coakley offers a mode of thinking about prayer deeply attentive to the shape of spiritual discipline and it's relation to theological grammar. This paper contests that it is precisely in the non-objectivity of divine being, as thought by Rose and Coakley, that we find resources for conceptualising thinking itself as a dispossessive spiritual act. The theological and the spiritual (theory and praxis) cannot, therefore, be partitioned out without violence being done to the act of thinking itself.
K1 Neo-Kantianism
K1 Thinking
K1 Prayer
K1 Gillian Rose
K1 Sarah Coakley
DO 10.1111/nbfr.12085