From Laws to Liturgy

An Idealist Theology of Creation

AvEdward Epsen

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Del 21 i serien Studies in Systematic Theology

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Beskrivning

In From Laws to Liturgy, Edward Epsen offers a constructive account of what God produces in the act of creation and how it is ontologically ordered and governed. Inspired by the philosophy of Bishop Berkeley (18th century), Epsen proposes that the physical world is produced by the way God ordains the course of possible human sensations, with angels executing the divine ordinances. Idealism is here re-attached to a tradition of Christian Platonism, updating the traditional notions of the aeon, angelic government, and the divine ideas, so as to be capable of explanatory work in regard to the philosophical problems of perception and induction: the objectivity and observability of the world are explained by a unified sacramental economy of the Eucharist.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-02-06
Mått:155 x 235 x 13 mm
Vikt:392 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Systematic Theology
Antal sidor:238
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004413962

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

Mer om författaren

Edward Epsen, Ph.D. (2017), Durham University, is Assistant Professor of Science and Religion at Samford University. Formerly the Teaching Fellow in Systematic and Philosophical Theology at King’s College London, he works on the theme of divine action in nature.

Innehållsförteckning

PrefacePart 1: Making the Theological Case for Idealism1 Creation and Christian Metaphysics1.1 Introduction1.2 The Mind-Matter Relation in Theology1.3 How Platonism becomes Christian Idealism1.4 The Immateriality of the Body: A Suspicion of Gnosticism1.5 Summary Argument and Chapter Outlines2 A World as Liturgical Language2.1 Introduction: Cosmos and Eucharist2.2 Angels in a Eucharistic Cosmos2.3 Biblical Logos Cosmology2.4 The Absolute Primacy of Christ2.5 Angels as Liturgical Prophets and Governors3 Early Idealist Theories of Creation3.1 Introduction3.2 Plotinus and the Critique of Aristotle’s Categories3.3 Gregory’s Phenomenalistic Immaterialism4 Dionysius on Hierarchy and Symbolic Theology4.1 Introduction: Mystical Ascent through Incongruous Images4.2 The Cosmic Hierarchy4.3 The Celestial Hierarchy and the Visible Creation Economy5 Berkeley and the Immaterial Language of Embodiment5.1 Introduction5.2 The Language Model of Vision5.3 The Heterogeneity of the Senses and the Confinement of the Sensibles5.4 Analogous Fields of Discourse 5.5 The Idealist Construction of SpacePart 2: Christian Idealism: An Analytic Exposition6 The Nexus of Mind and Matter in Perceptual Consciousness6.1 Introduction6.2 Realism, Idealism, and Perceptual Theory6.3 An Ontology of Sensory Universals6.4 Perceptual Error and Objecthood6.5 An Idealist View of Physical Causality7 The Construction of the Physical World7.1 Introduction7.2 The Logical Construction of Things in Space7.3 Idealism and the Logical Structure of Physical Theory7.4 Against the Claims of Physical Realism7.5 Realism and Idealist Theology of Visible Creation8 The Ultimate Reality as a Community of Minds8.1 Introduction8.2 Christian Theism and the Problem of Creative Laws8.3 The Augustinian-Cartesian View of the Soul8.4 The Logical Construction of Time8.5 The Laws of CreationPart 3: The Theological Case for Christian Idealism Continued9 The Cosmic Liturgy9.1 Introduction9.2 The Celestial Scope of Natural Theology9.3 The Challenge to Physical Realism from Angelic Cosmology9.4 The Unity of a Eucharistic CosmosBibliographyIndex