Badiou, Marion, and St. Paul; immanent grace.9780826498700 Badiou, Marion, and St. Paul St. Paul as a missionary he fearlessly confronts the “perils of waters, of robbers, in the city, in the wilderness.” [N.T.: II Cor. 11:26] See : Bravery ; immanent im·ma·nent adj. 1. Existing or remaining within; inherent: believed in a God immanent in humans. 2. Restricted entirely to the mind; subjective. grace. Miller, Adam. Continuum Publishing Group 2008 162 pages $130.00 Hardcover Continuum studies in continental philosophy BT769 Miller (philosophy, Collin College) examines the theological concept of grace through the writings of St. Paul, Jean-Luc Marion Jean-Luc Marion (b. 1946) is among the best-known living philosophers in France and a former student of Jacques Derrida. Although much of his academic work has dealt with Descartes and phenomenologists like Martin Heidegger and Edmund Husserl, it is rather his explicitly religious and Alain Badiou Alain Badiou (born 1937, Rabat, Morocco) is a prominent French Left-wing philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS). Biography . Miller defines grace as "...the possibility of something genuinely new...the promise that the future need not already have been decided by the past." He recognizes that for most people this implies a transcendent, supernatural event. However he wishes to explore the possibility of grace as immanent, or actual, and not necessarily tied to religious belief. Densely and beautifully written, this treatise is intended to open the reader to new possibilities in ontological on·to·log·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to ontology. 2. Of or relating to essence or the nature of being. 3. thought. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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