Evil, Fallenness, and Finitude

Bruce Ellis Benson is Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Loyola Marymount University and Executive Director of the Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology. Recent publications include Liturgy as a Way of Life: Embodying the Arts in Christian Worship (Baker Academic, 2013) and The New Phenomenology: A Philosophical Introduction (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), co-authored with J. Aaron Simmons. He is the author or editor of twelve books, and serves as an editor of the Eerdmans book series “Prophetic Christianity.”B. Keith Putt is Professor of Philosophy at Samford University. He is co-editor of The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion (Indiana UP, 2014) and editor of Gazing Through a Prism Darkly: Reflections on Merold Westphal’s Hermeneutical Epistemology (Fordham UP, 2009). He has authored several articles on deconstruction, hermeneutics, and Philosophy of Religion, primarily focusing on the post-secular thought of John D. Caputo.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. The Concept of Anxiety and Kant.- 3. Are Finite and Infinite Love the Same? Erich Przywara and Jean-Luc Marion of Analogy and Univocity.- 4. The World Seen from the Outside.- 5. Between the Homunculus Fallacy and Angelic Cognitive Dissonance in the Explanation of Evil: Milton’s Poetry and Luzzatto’s Kabala.- 6. Evil and Finitude.- 7. Philosophy and Theology: Emmanuel Falque and the New Theological Turn.- 8. Embracing Finitude: Falque’s Phenomenology of the Suffering.- 9. On Hanosis: Kierkegaard on the Move from Objectivity to Subjectivity in the Sin of David.-10. Kierkegaardian Deconstruction and the Paradoxes of Fait.- 11. Paul Ricoeur on Mythic-Symbolic Language: Towards a Post-Theodical Understanding of the Problem of Evil.- 12.:The Fault of Forgiveness: Fragility and Memory of Evil in Volf and Ricoeur.- 13. Circulus Vitiosus Existentiae: Ricoeur’s Circular Hermeneutics of Evil.