Theology of Compassion

by Oliver Davies

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0334028337
• ISBN13: 9780334028338
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: SCM Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.2"