God after Metaphysics: A Theological Aesthetic

by John Panteleimon Manoussakis

While philosophy believes it is impossible to have an experience of God without the senses, theology claims that such an experience is possible, though potentially idolatrous. In this engagingly creative book, John Panteleimon Manoussakis ends the impasse by proposing an aesthetic allowing for a sensuous experience of God that is not subordinated to imposed categories or concepts. Manoussakis draws upon the theological traditions of the Eastern Church, including patristic and liturgical resources, to build a theological aesthetic founded on the inverted gaze of icons, the augmented language of hymns, and the reciprocity of touch. Manoussakis explores how a relational interpretation of being develops a fuller and more meaningful view of the phenomenology of religious experience beyond metaphysics and onto-theology.

Genres: Philosophy, Religion

213 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

John Panteleimon Manoussakis was born in Athens, Greece, and educated in the United States (Ph.D., Boston College). He was ordained into the diaconate in 1995 and into the priesthood in 2011, receiving the distinction of an archimandrite. He is a Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University and he is the recipient of a Templeton Foundation grant. He is the author of three books, editor of five volumes and he has published over thirty articles in English, Greek, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian.

Reviews

[Ιωάννης Πλεξίδας · Rating 5 out of 5]

Διαβάστε το οπωσδήποτε! Εξαιρετικό βιβλίο!

[Joseph · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is an interesting piece on how the experience of God can be phenomenologically described via the sense of seeing, hearing and touching. Not too bad, but not too original either (Builds mostly off of Marion's adaption of inverted intentionality)