Theology of Compassion

By: Oliver Davies

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The wide-scale rejection of metaphysics today has become the test of the postmodern. In this volume, Oliver Davies argues for a renewal of metaphysics, as the language of createdness, based not in a return to outmoded concepts of essence, but in a dynamic new understanding of ontology as narrataive and performance. His repairing of the western metaphysical tradition is grounded both in the divine self-naming in Exodus which, for the rabbis, identified God's presence in the world with God's compassionate acts, and in the compassionate resistance of Etty Hillesum and Edith Stein to the violence of the Holocaust. Building upon a new metaphysics of compassion which is attentive to the deepest histories of the contemporary world, Davies offers a renewed systematic theology of divine speech and relation, focused in Jesus Christ who, as the triadic "Word" of God, speaks creatively at the heart of human culture and action, and, as the redeeming "Compassion" of God, regenerates the world. Oliver Davies is Reader in Theology at the University of Wales, Lampeter. His previous publications have been mainly in the area of medieval mysticism, especially Meister Eckhart, and Celtic Christianity.

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Preface
Introduction
Kenotic Ontology	p. 1
Towards a New Metaphysics	p. 3
Refiguring metaphysics	p. 6
The ontology of compassion	p. 10
The priority of compassion	p. 16
The Compassionate Self	p. 24
Deconstructing the phenomenological subject	p. 24
Three narratives	p. 25
A transcendental analytic of compassion	p. 29
Excursus	p. 37
Narrative of Existence	p. 47
Introduction: The Grammar of Ontology	p. 49
Being and Oneness: Hierarchy and Cult	p. 56
Parmenides	p. 56
Plotinus	p. 58
Meister Eckhart	p. 62
Benedict de Spinoza	p. 64
Martin Heidegger	p. 69
Being and Nothingness: Creation and Community	p. 74
Augustine and the Platonists	p. 75
Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle	p. 81
Soren Kierkegaard and Hegelians	p. 88
Being and Consciousness: Freedom and Limit	p. 96
Rene Descartes	p. 98
Immanuel Kant	p. 100
J. G. Fichte	p. 103
Friedrich Hegel	p. 107
The Death of Being? Deconstruction and Difference	p. 114
Friedrich Nietzsche	p. 115
Gilles Deleuze	p. 118
Jacques Derrida	p. 122
Emmanuel Levinas	p. 129
Being and Love: Towards a Christian Ontology of Difference	p. 138
Reconstructions	p. 139
Three theologians	p. 146
John Milbank	p. 146
Jean-Luc Marion	p. 150
David Ford	p. 153
Creatureliness and the unity of consciousness	p. 157
A theological reduction of compassion	p. 159
Fundamental Theology	p. 165
Introduction: Word and Silence	p. 167
Fundamental Theology and Poetics	p. 171
The form of poeticity	p. 177
Towards a theological poetics	p. 184
The Structure of Revelation as Communication	p. 189
Speaking to and speaking with	p. 192
Divine conversations	p. 195
Old Testament	p. 195
New Testament	p. 199
The Phenomenology of Faith as Cognition	p. 212
Faith as personal knowing	p. 214
Universal world-centredness	p. 217
Infinite kenosis	p. 220
Tradition as presence in memory	p. 221
A Systematic Theology of Compassion	p. 225
Introduction: Doctrine as Christian Knowledge	p. 227
Compassion: Human and Divine	p. 232
The concept of compassion	p. 233
The compassion of God	p. 240
Old Testament	p. 240
New Testament	p. 244
The compassion of his people	p. 246
The image of God	p. 249
Divine Pragmatics: Speech, Space and Power	p. 254
Trinity	p. 256
Triadic speech	p. 262
Creation	p. 266
Incarnation	p. 269
The Christian Church: Truth as Transgression	p. 274
Christian truth	p. 276
The Marian church	p. 279
The Petrine church	p. 282
Mission	p. 284
Conversation with other religions	p. 285
Afterword: Towards a Eucharistic Cosmology	p. 290
Select Bibliography	p. 294
Notes	p. 309
Index of Names	p. 369
Index of Subjects	p. 373
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