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The God who neither is nor is not : a theological evaluation of Richard Kearney’s “God who may be”
Dissertation (MTh (Dogmatics and Christian Ethics))--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/63612 The God who neither is nor is not : a theological evaluation of Richard Kearney’s “God who may be” Veldsman, Daniel Petrus ysteenka@gmail.com Steenkamp, Yolande Systematic Theology Richard Kearney Postmodern theology Post-metaphysical theology Possibility/impossibility Philosophy-theology debate Exodus 3:14 UCTD Dissertation (MTh (Dogmatics and Christian Ethics))--University of Pretoria, 2012. A recognised dialogue partner in the renewed philosophical quest for God, Richard Kearney subscribes to the move in contemporary philosophy of religion that places the God-after-God in a dialectical relationship with the metaphysical God of pure act and strives to overcome it. In The God who may be, Richard Kearney takes up the challenge of re-imagining God and traditional concepts of transcendence in a postmodern context, and in a way that takes issue with both idolatry and injustice. Between the two rival ways of interpreting the divine – the eschatological and the onto-theological – Kearney proposes the God-who-may-be as a third, “onto-eschatological” way that negotiates between these polar opposites. The study examines Kearney’s post-metaphysical reflection on God. More specifically, it probes into his utilisation of both eschatology and the imagination as a way of negotiating a third way, according to a “poetics of the possible,” between the polar opposite understandings of God as either Being or Non-Being. It aims to understand The God who may be within the larger context of his trilogy and his other publications on the subjects of the imagination, ethics, hermeneutics, and “thinking God” post-metaphysically. It considers Kearney’s God of posse from a theological perspective, with the guiding question of what may be gained and what will be lost along the way of the post-metaphysical wager. The hypothesis is that Kearney’s notion of the God of posse promises new possibilities for leading theology and its discourse about God beyond metaphysical categories to allow for an eschatological understanding of the existence of God. The study finds that Kearney’s God of posse does present some interpretational difficulties, but ultimately concludes that, if approached within the confines that Kearney lays out for himself – namely that of a poetic, phenomenologico-hermeneutical exploration of certain symbols of the Judeo-Christian tradition – that Kearney at least prepares the field for thorough and creative theological engagement with his proposals. UP Postgraduate bursary Dogmatics and Christian Ethics MTh (Dogmatics and Christian Ethics) Unrestricted 2018-01-18T12:05:23Z 2018-01-18T12:05:23Z 2013-04-03 2012 Dissertation Steenkamp, Y 2012, The God who neither is nor is not: a theological evaluation of Richard Kearney’s “God who may be”, MTh dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed http://hdl.handle.net/2263/63612 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/63612 en © 2018 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Systematic Theology Richard Kearney Postmodern theology Post-metaphysical theology Possibility/impossibility Philosophy-theology debate Exodus 3:14 UCTD The God who neither is nor is not : a theological evaluation of Richard Kearney’s “God who may be” |
| title | The God who neither is nor is not : a theological evaluation of Richard Kearney’s “God who may be” |
| title_full | The God who neither is nor is not : a theological evaluation of Richard Kearney’s “God who may be” |
| title_fullStr | The God who neither is nor is not : a theological evaluation of Richard Kearney’s “God who may be” |
| title_full_unstemmed | The God who neither is nor is not : a theological evaluation of Richard Kearney’s “God who may be” |
| title_short | The God who neither is nor is not : a theological evaluation of Richard Kearney’s “God who may be” |
| title_sort | god who neither is nor is not a theological evaluation of richard kearney s god who may be |
| topic | Systematic Theology Richard Kearney Postmodern theology Post-metaphysical theology Possibility/impossibility Philosophy-theology debate Exodus 3:14 UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/63612 |