Refiguring the Sacred
Conversations with Paul Ricoeur
James F Moore editor Mark I Wallace editor Joseph A Edelheit editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:18th Jun '24
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Refiguring the Sacred: Conversations with Paul Ricoeur offers perspectives on the twenty-one papers collected by Mark I. Wallace in Paul Ricoeur’s Figuring the Sacred, translated by David Pellauer; this new collection by Joseph A. Edelheit, James Moore, and Mark I. Wallace gives Ricoeur scholars an opportunity to reflect and engage on critical issues of Ricoeur’s religious ideas. Contributions by several significant Ricoeur scholars prompt questions and invite new conversations more than 15 years after Ricoeur’s death. His life-long engagement with texts illuminates his embrace of the Sacred; his significant thinking and writings on Religious imagination, Theology, the Bible, Hope, and Praxis are all ideas that beg more reading, reflection, and refiguring of our understanding of Ricoeur. Wallace brings two additional essays that could not be included in his original collection and reflects on why they are essential to our understanding of Ricoeur and the Sacred. Refiguring the Sacred also provides a model of the interfaith and multidisciplinary dialogue that were foundational to Paul Ricoeur’s scholarship.
This book offers a feast of vital engagements with Ricoeur's hermeneutics of religion, providing critical insights into his relationship with theology, biblical studies, and phenomenology of the sacred. Refiguring the Sacred offers a timely and vigorous contribution to contemporary debates on faith and what comes after. -- Richard Kearney, Boston College
Refiguring the Sacred: Conversations with Paul Ricœur brings together essays by a number of distinguished specialists on the thought of Paul Ricœur. The authors discuss different aspects of Ricœur's seminal reflection on the theme of the sacred and these discussions are complemented by translations of two of Ricœur's essays on this topic. This book provides a valuable contribution to the elucidation of Ricœur's philosophy of religion, of his conception of interfaith dialogue, and of the profound theory of interpretation that lies at the heart of his philosophy. It is highly recommended not only for specialists of the thought of Paul Ricœur, but for all who are interested in the meaning that the question of the sacred may elicit in the perspective of twentieth century philosophy. -- Jeffrey Andrew Barash, Université de Picardie, Amiens
ISBN: 9781666919097
Dimensions: 238mm x 160mm x 23mm
Weight: 517g
232 pages