Frederick Douglass and the Philosophy of Religion

An Interpretation of Narrative, Art, and the Political

Timothy J. Golden (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

276 Seiten

2021
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-9167-5 (ISBN)

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Frederick Douglass and the Philosophy of Religion: An Interpretation of Narrative, Art, and Politics addresses Douglass's narrative method and the reformed epistemology of analytic theism within the context of incarnational theology. Timothy J. Golden argues that in this context, Douglass's use of narrative maintains a robust moral, social, and political engagement—and thus a closer connection to an authentic Christian theology—in a way that analytic theism does not. To show this contrast, Golden presents existential and phenomenological interpretations of Douglass, reading him with Kierkegaard, Kafka, and Levinas. Golden also interprets Douglass's use of moral suasion with Kant's moments of aesthetic judgment and his account of judgment as a mediating faculty between the understanding and reason. Golden concludes the book with reflection on how Douglass’s incarnational theology connects to his future philosophical and theological work, work that understands consciousness (subjectivity) as saturated in time understood as history. The resulting understanding of consciousness provides tools to overcome abstraction not only in social and political philosophy, Christianity, and philosophical theology, but also in gender studies.

Timothy J. Golden is professor of philosophy at Walla Walla University.

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Dawn: A New Day for a New Song

1 The Word Made Flesh: Narrative and the Jurisdiction of History

2 The Truth in Fiction: Narrative, Art, and Subjectivity

3 Overcoming Theodicy: Narrative, Poetry, and the Phenomenology of Suffering

4 A Demand for Universality: Narrative, Art, and the Politics of Moral Suasion

5 An Ethical Metaphysics of the Flesh: Narrative, Theology and Justice

Epilogue: Toward a Philosophical Theology of History: Narrative and Resurrection

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.09.2021
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 239 mm
Gewicht	594 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-7391-9167-5 / 0739191675
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-9167-5 / 9780739191675
Zustand	Neuware