Man and God

Xavier Zubiri (1898-1983), is a famous contemporary Spanish philosopher. Zubiri rethought the problems of philosophy in a very profound way and developed a radically new approach to knowing and reality, termed Sentient Intelligence. His thought is a synthesis of classical philosophy (from Aristotle to St. Thomas) and phenomenology, but goes beyond both. Zubiri's theological writings utilize this philosophical framework. Thomas Fowler is president and founder of the Xavier Zubiri Foundation of North America. He has translated two other works by Zubiri and is editor of The Xavier Zubiri Review, a journal devoted to Zubiri studies. He also serves as adjunct professor at George Mason University and his book, The Evolution Controversy, A Survey of Competing Theories was published in 2007.Nelson Orringer is a retired professor of comparative literature at the University of Connecticut, who has authored many books about Spanish literary and philosophical figures and has translated a book by Zubiri into English. He is widely respected as an expert on twentieth century Spanish authors, especially Ortega y Gassett, Unamuno, and Zubiri, among others.Joaquín Redondo is a longtime scholar and researcher of Zubiri. A native speaker of both Spanish and English, he is in a unique position to translate Zubiri's philosophical expressions, often metaphorical, into clear English. He has also translated three other works by Zubiri in addition to this book, and is preparing a fifth.

Man and God (El hombre y Dios) is the book upon which Xavier Zubiri was working when he died on September 21st, 1983. Fortunately, he left it almost complete, and that is the reason why the present text constitutes a systematic work and not a miscellany of fragments or essays. It is the first of his theology trilogy, the next two volumes of which are El problema filosófico de la historia de las religiones (The Philosophical Problem of the History of Religions), and Cristianismo (Christianity). Man and God has a profound relation of homogeneity with other books published by Zubiri: Sobre la esencia [English translation, On Essence, 1980], and the trilogy Inteligencia y Realidad , Inteligencia y Logos , and Inteligencia y Razón which together comprise Zubiri's major work, Inteligencia Sentiente [English translation, Sentient Intelligence, 1999]. In these works Zubiri sought to overcome the centuries-old conceptualism and idealism of Metaphysics (On Essence) and the Theory of Knowledge (Sentient Intelligence) though a new, unified vision of them capable of resolving the myriad problems accumulated over two and half millennia of intellectual effort. In Man and God Zubiri propo

• Chapter 1 Translator's IntroductionChapter 2 Editor's IntroductionChapter 3 Author's IntroductionChapter 4 Part 1: Human RealityPart 5 Chapter 1. What Is It To Be Human?Part 6 Chapter 2. How Can One Be A Human Being?Chapter 7 Part II: Divine RealityPart 8 Chapter 3. The Unfolding of the Problem: I. The Reality of GodPart 9 Chapter 4: The Unfolding of the Problem: II. Human Access to GodChapter 10 Part III: Human Beings, Experience of GodPart 11 Chapter 5. God, Experience of Human BeingsPart 12 Chapter 6. Human Beings, Experience of GodPart 13 Chapter 7. Unity of God "and" Human BeingsChapter 14 By Way of ConclusionChapter 15 The Theological Problem of Human BeingsChapter 16 Index