Archimandrite Pavel Stefanov

Transforming Philosophy and Religion: Love’s Wisdom
Edited by Norman Wirzba and Bruce Ellis Benson

Bloomington (IN), Indiana University Press, 2008

Format: paper 272 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, ISBN-13: 978-0-253-35073-2

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Actively engages love in the practice of philosophy. Norman Wirzba, Bruce Ellis Benson, and an international group of philosophers and theologians describe how various expressions of philosophy are transformed by the discipline of love. What is at stake is how philosophy colors and shapes the way we receive and engage each other, our world, and God. Focusing primarily on the Continental tradition of philosophy of religion, the work presented in this volume engages thinkers such as St. Paul, Meister Eckhart, Kierkegaard, Husserl, Heidegger, Ricoeur, Derrida, Marion, Zizek, Irigaray, and Michele Le Doeuff. Emerging from the book is a complex definition of the wisdom of love which challenges how we think about nature, social justice, faith, gender, creation, medicine, politics, and ethics.

Norman Wirzba is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Georgetown College. He is author of The Paradise of God: Renewing Religion in an Ecological Age and editor (with Bruce Ellis Benson) of The Phenomenology of Prayer.

Bruce Ellis Benson is Associate Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Wheaton College. He is author of Pious Nietzsche (IUP, 2007). He is editor (with Kevin Vanhoozer and James K. A. Smith) of Hermeneutics at the Crossroads (IUP, 2006).

Series: Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion
Distribution: worldwide
Publication date: 4/14/2008
Format: paper 272 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
ISBN-13: 978-0-253-21958-9