Paths To The Personal

Thinkers on the Way to Postcritical and Theopoetic Depths

By: R Keiser

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Paperback | 1 April 2024

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'In this age of electronic noise, political antagonism, and general discontent, Paths to the Personal delivers to the spiritually hungry a delicious feast of peaceful promise.' Walter Gulick, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Humanities and Religious Studies, Montana State University Billings

Paths to the Personal: Thinkers on the Way to Postcritical and Theopoetic Depths seeks to define and explore the dimension of the personal underlying all knowing, doing, being, and religion. Using a lens combining Michael Polanyi's postcritical and Stanley Hopper's theopoetic thought, which carries the author into and beyond their explorative depths of the personal, Keiser asks to what degree the personal is present in the thinking of Augustine, Tillich, H.R. Niebuhr, Fritz Buri, Freud, Mircea Eliade, Merleau-Ponty, William Poteat, Hopper, and Polanyi. The immersive issues in these pages are: how we know; how words (symbols, metaphors, myths, and religious talk) work; contributions of philosophy to justice and peace-making; and the nature of religious thinking and being. While not focused on Quaker thought and spirituality, the author's Quaker perspective undergirds these inquiries.

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In this age of electronic noise, political antagonism, and general discontent, where can one find guidance to coherent living that matters? Mel Keiser provides the reader with a menu of thinkers who provide such guidance from distinct but largely compatible perspectives. Michael Polanyi's post-critical philosophy, with its emphasis on the tacit dimension, plays the leading role in Keiser's constructive thought. But Keiser seasons his thought with such additional influences as Augustine's reflections and confessions, Merleau-Ponty's notion of figure and ground, H. Richard Niebuhr's responsible self, Paul Tillich's dimension of depth, the Quaker practice of silence, and Stanley Hopper's substitution of imaginative theopoiesis for the overly rigid and objectivist categories of much theology. Paths to the Personal delivers to the spiritually hungry a delicious feast of peaceful promise.

--Walter B. Gulick, author of Recovering Truths: A Comprehensive Anthology of Michael Polanyi's Writings

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