Contemplation: Beyond and Behind

This essay seeks to explore contemplation as it features in Christian theology and philosophy, both ancient and modern. Contemplation, in ancient philosophy, is transformed in Christian theology; nonetheless, it has the structure of what Jean Wahl calls ‘transascendance’, a rising to the heights. Al...

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Auteur principal: Hart, Kevin 1954- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Springer Netherlands 2009
Dans: Sophia
Année: 2009, Volume: 48, Numéro: 4, Pages: 435
Sujets non-standardisés:B Contemplation
B Heidegger
B Transcendence
B Theoria
B Wittgenstein
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Résumé:This essay seeks to explore contemplation as it features in Christian theology and philosophy, both ancient and modern. Contemplation, in ancient philosophy, is transformed in Christian theology; nonetheless, it has the structure of what Jean Wahl calls ‘transascendance’, a rising to the heights. Although contemplation remains as a theme in modern Christian theology, it drops out in modern philosophy: that is, post-Renaissance philosophy. And yet it returns, both in analytic and continental philosophy, in the twentieth century. It returns, however, in the mode of ‘transdescendance’: by way of conditions of possibility, and fundamental orientations.
ISSN:1873-930X
Contient:Enthalten in: Sophia
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s11841-009-0131-6