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    <![CDATA[Suspicion and Faith: The Religious Uses of Modern Atheism]]>
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    <![CDATA[Are there legitimate uses for atheists' critiques of religion? Westphal says yes, if we take a closer look not at the atheists' arguments against the existence of God, but at their observations about the sometimes disreputable functions of religious practice and belief, as demonstrated in the &quot;atheism of suspicion&quot;, put forth by Freud, Marx, and Nietzsche.]]>
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    <![CDATA[God, Guilt, and Death: An Existential Phenomenology of Religion (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)]]>
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    <![CDATA[In this important contribution to the philosophy of religion, Merold Westphal explains what it means to be religious.  Employing the phenomenological method developed by Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Paul Ricoeur, Westphal demonstrates that one need not be a believer to understand the religious experience.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Whose Community? Which Interpretation?: Philosophical Hermeneutics for the Church]]>
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    <![CDATA[In this volume, renowned philosopher Merold Westphal introduces current philosophical thinking related to interpreting the Bible. Recognizing that no theology is completely free of philosophical &quot;contamination,&quot; he engages and mines contemporary hermeneutical theory in service of the church. After providing a historical overview of contemporary theories of interpretation, Westphal addresses postmodern hermeneutical theory, arguing that the relativity embraced there is not the same as the relativism in which &quot;anything goes.&quot; Rather, Westphal encourages us to embrace the proliferation of interpretations based on different perspectives as a way to get at the richness of the biblical text.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Levinas and Kierkegaard in Dialogue (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion)]]>
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    <![CDATA[Few philosophers have devoted more than passing attention to similarities between the thought of Søren Kierkegaard, a Danish Christian, and Emmanuel Levinas, a French Jew. Here, one of philosophy of religion's most distinctive voices offers a sustained comparison. Focusing on questions surrounding otherness, transcendence, postmodernity, and the nature of religious thought, Merold Westphal draws readers into a dialogue between the two thinkers. Westphal's masterful command of both philosophies shows that each can learn from the other. <em>Levinas and Kierkegaard in Dialogue</em> is an insightful and accessible contribution to philosophical considerations of ethics and religion.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Are postmodern philosophy and Christian thought  so diametrically opposed that &quot;never the twain shall meet&quot;?   Or are various postmodern philosophies, in spite of their  secular provenance, open to religious appropriation? These  thirteen lively, original essays awaken secular  postmodernisms and various modes of Christian thinking from  their ideological complacency.  An open space for passionate  dialogue emerges from conversations that powerfully engage  both intellectual and religious points of view.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Kierkegaard in Post/Modernity]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>&quot;This volume represents a fine assessment of the continuing applicability of Kierkegaard's thought for the 21st century.&quot;  -- The Reader's Review</p><p>&quot;Matustík and Westphal have set some agile minds to the task of drawing out the threads of Kierkegaard's influence on postmodern and contemporary philosophy, from gender to politics and from Buber to Derrida.&quot; -- Choice</p><p>&quot;... Usefully and effectively establishes Kierkegaard as a living presence in contemporary thought. It will help students of Kierkegaard attend to aspects of his thought that have eluded their attention, and it will challenge those engaged with contemporary continental philosophy not to shelter themselves from the provocations and interrogrations still uncomfortably pressing in Kierkegaard's writings.&quot; -- International Philosophical Quarterly</p><p>&quot;The standard of the essays and the calibre of the contributors are uniformly high. This is indeed one of the better collections relating to Kierkegaard published in recent years, and should do much to extend discussion of his work...&quot; -- Modern Believing </p><p>&quot;... a text of immense significance and value.... As a research tool it will surely prove indispensable.&quot; -- Søren Kierkegaard Newsletter</p><p>&quot;It will be a helpful supplementary areading for teaching... the contemporary readings of Kierkegaard introduced here continue to reveal new and more exciting depths to his extraordinary philosophy.&quot; -- Teaching Philosophy</p><p>These essays engage Kierkegaard in conversation with critical social theory and postmodern thought. Covering a diversity of themes, this collection still reflects consensus -- Kierkegaard is to be taken seriously as a philosopher at the turn of the twenty-first century.</p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[Transcendence and Self-Transcendence: On God and the Soul (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion)]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>The question of the transcendence of God has traditionally been thought in terms of the difference between pantheism, which affirms that God is wholly &quot;within&quot; the world, and theism, which affirms that God is both &quot;within&quot; and &quot;outside&quot; the world, both immanent and transcendent. Against Heidegger's critique of onto-theology and the general postmodern concern for respecting and preserving the difference of the other, Merold Westphal seeks to rethink divine transcendence in relation to modes of human self-transcendence. Touching upon Spinoza, Hegel, Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, Aquinas, Barth, Kierkegaard, Levinas, Derrida, and Marion, Westphal's work centers around a critique of onto-theology, the importance of alterity, the decentered self, and the autonomous transcendental ego. Westphal's phenomenology of faith sets this book into the main currents of Continental philosophy of religion today.</p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[Hegel, Freedom and Modernity (SUNY Series in Hegelian Studies)]]>
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