Agnostic in the Fellowship of Christ

The Ethical Mysticism of Albert Schweitzer

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

An Agnostic in the Fellowship of Christ: The Ethical Mysticism of Albert Schweitzer details the theology, ethics, and philosophy of the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965). It surveys his entire corpus of religious writings, including his unfinished estate works, and explores the intellectual history behind his distinctive theological synthesis. David K. Goodin traces Schweitzer’s intellectual and spiritual development from childhood to his academic years and throughout his time at the African medical mission. It also places Schweitzer into dialogue with other Protestant theologians including Martin Luther, Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Thomas Altizer, as well as with contemporary philosophers like Jacques Derrida. The aim is to reveal what a living faith and mysticism can mean for the modern world, and where common ground can be found for traditional and liberal Protestant theology today.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-05-29
Mått:160 x 230 x 27 mm
Vikt:585 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781978701564

Utforska kategorier

Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

David K. Goodin is lecturer for the McGill School of Religious Studies, Professeur Associé at the Université Laval, Institut de Théologie Orthodoxe de Montréal, and instructor for the Pappas Patristic Institute at the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology.

Recensioner i media

David K. Goodin offers a much-needed reassessment of Albert Schweitzer—the man and his ideas, especially the ethical mysticism at the heart of his answer to the spiritual malaise of his time, and ours. Interweaving biography, the observations of others, and Schweitzer’s own autobiographical writings, Goodin offers a nuanced portrait of a Christian who eschewed dogma, affirmed the value, and the limits, of science and reason, admitted to an agnosticism regarding God, yet modeled his life on that of Jesus and sought to live the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount. For those disillusioned with the exclusivist dogma, hypocrisy, and disengagement of their Christian heritage, Schweitzer, and Goodin, offer an alternate way to discipleship through active love, with precedent in the apophatic theology of the early church; and for any reader, religious or not, a way to embrace life and live compassionately and responsibly with an open heart and open mind.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Ethical Mysticism2. Bach and Aesthetics3. Bach and Mysticism4. Schweitzer as Preacher 5. On Knowing God6. Pauline Christianity7. Absolutism and Realism 8. At the Border-Crossing 9. The Cost of Discipleship