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God without being : hors-texte

By: Marion, Jean-Luc.
Contributor(s): Carlson, Thomas A | Tracy, David.
Series: Religion and postmodernism.Publisher: London Chicago University Press 2012Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xxx, 313 p. 22 cm.ISBN: 9780226505657.Subject(s): Philosophical theology | God | Ontology | Religion AgnosticismDDC classification: 211 Summary: "Jean-Luc Marion advances a controversial argument for a God free of all categories of Being. Taking a characteristically postmodern stance, Marion challenges a fundamental premise of both metaphysics and neo-Thomist theology: that God, before all else, must be. Rather, he locates a "God without Being" in the realm of agape, Christian charity or love." "This volume, the first translation into English of the work of this leading Catholic philosopher, offers a uniquely contemporary perspective on the nature of God."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index

"Jean-Luc Marion advances a controversial argument for a God free of all categories of Being. Taking a characteristically postmodern stance, Marion challenges a fundamental premise of both metaphysics and neo-Thomist theology: that God, before all else, must be. Rather, he locates a "God without Being" in the realm of agape, Christian charity or love." "This volume, the first translation into English of the work of this leading Catholic philosopher, offers a uniquely contemporary perspective on the nature of God."--Jacket.

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