Seeing the world and knowing God : Hebrew wisdom and Christian doctrine in a late-modern context

Seeing the world and knowing God : Hebrew wisdom and Christian doctrine in a late-modern context / Paul S. Fiddes.

This creates a Christian theology of wisdom for the present day, in discussion with two sets of conversation-partners: the writers of the 'wisdom literature' in ancient Israel and the Jewish community in Alexandria; and the philosophers and thinkers of the late-modern age, among them Derri...

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Main Author: Fiddes, Paul S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2013.
Subjects:
Theology, Doctrinal.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > Systematic.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
Theology, Doctrinal
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Table of Contents:
  • The cry for wisdom
  • The mood of the late-modern world
  • 'Where were you?' Self and other
  • The elusiveness of the world and the limits of wisdom
  • The complexity of the world and the extent of wisdom
  • The seeing self and wisdom as observation
  • Hidden wisdom: a theology of presence and place
  • Metaphor and mystery in the interpretation of wisdom
  • Wisdom as a search for the sum of things
  • The text of the world and the comprehensiveness of wisdom
  • The process of learning and the rejection of wisdom
  • Attunement to wisdom: from observation to participation.

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