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  • Theology as Autobiography

    The Centrality of Confession, Relationship, and Prayer to the Life of Faith

    by Colby Dickinson ...
    Autobiographical writings on faith frequently come from the lives of ordinary persons whose struggles with faith are often lived at the margins of the church, academy, and society. Yet these voices have the potential to reshape the ways in which each of these fields function. To find out what it means to stand before God with all of one's humanity on display is to engage in not only the act of ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Redoubling and the Roots of Metaphysics in the West

    by Colby Dickinson ...
    Series series SUNY series in Theology and Continental Thought
    Describes the secularization of mystical thought as it transforms into nihilism in the modern period.Redoubling and the Roots of Metaphysics in the West is a study of how positive metaphysical abstractions are not only central to Western Philosophy, but to its core political mythologies as well. By creating a "meta" position through such abstract redoublings of a concept, absolute positions are ... Read more

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  • Atheism and Love in the Modern Era

    Practicing Indifference

    by Colby Dickinson ...
    Discussing the decline of faith and the rise of love in the modern era, Colby Dickinson proposes a critique of religious belief which addresses how a secular world can continue to mine religious traditions for their conceptual and emotional riches. Atheism and Love in the Modern Era argues that theism and atheism taken together can peel back the layers of abstraction, alienation, and ... Read more

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  • Sacred Pilgrim, Secular Pilgrim

    A Roman Journey

    by Colby Dickinson ...
    This book is part travelogue, part philosophical reflection, part historical overview, and part autobiography. Dickinson narrates his journeys to various Roman churches alongside their curious and often contradictory histories, guided by the overarching question: what does it mean to be a pilgrim, especially in the secular, pluralistic age in which we live? For him, pilgrimage takes place whenever ... Read more

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  • Haunted Words, Haunted Selves

    Listening to Otherness within Western Thought

    by Colby Dickinson ...
    We are all haunted by things we fear, repress, and those things of which we have no conscious knowledge. We are thus haunted by a variety of "ghosts" in our lives so that, at times, we might notice those things we have ignored, and so too allow the repressed elements of our world a chance to speak more directly to us. Being honest with ourselves means listening better to what haunts us, and to ... Read more

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  • Words Fail

    Theology, Poetry, and the Challenge of Representation

    by Colby Dickinson ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    There has been much philosophical speculation on the potential failure of language as well as the search for a presentation of the “thing itself” beyond representation. Words Fail pursues the writings of a trio of philosophers—Jacques Derrida, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, and Giorgio Agamben—as prime examples of how modern poetry presents us with a profitable vantage point from which to survey the ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Fetish of Theology

    The Challenge of the Fetish-Object to Modernity

    by Colby Dickinson ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    By delving into the history of the fetish-object among both modern and contemporary commentators, this book highlights the fetish-object’s role as a philosophical and religious concept of the highest significance. Historically, fetishes are implicated in specific struggles for sovereign (political) and/or religious (hierarchical) power, with their interwoven symbols defined as the primary location ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Theological Poverty in Continental Philosophy

    After Christian Theology

    by Colby Dickinson ...
    Series series Political Theologies
    Colby Dickinson proposes a new political theology rooted in the intersections between continental philosophy, heterodox theology, and orthodox theology. Moving beyond the idea that there is an irresolvable tension at the heart of theological discourse, the conflict between the two poles of theology is made intelligible. Dickinson discusses the opposing poles simply as manifestations of reform and ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Theology and Contemporary Continental Philosophy

    The Centrality of a Negative Dialectic

    by Colby Dickinson ...
    Series series Reframing Continental Philosophy of Religion
    This book aims to put modern continental philosophy, specifically the sub-fields of phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, deconstruction, critical theory and genealogy, into conversation with the field of contemporary theology. Colby Dickinson demonstrates the way in which negative dialectics, or the negation of negation, may help us to grasp the thin (or non-existent) borders between ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • The Challenge of God

    Continental Philosophy and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition

    Edited by Colby Dickinson, Professor Hugh Miller, Kathleen McNutt ...
    In view of the double vocative that characterizes the relation of Creator to creature, this book offers critiques of modern and postmodern philosophy for the ways in which they have separated philosophy, theology, and spirituality.This collection examines the complicated relationship of God to Being and the meaning of Revelation, as well as highlighting the context and the role of the Spiritual ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Postmodern Saints of France

    Refiguring 'the Holy' in Contemporary French Philosophy

    Edited by Colby Dickinson ...
    From the mid to the late 20th century various French thinkers have at times toyed wth the label of 'the saint', applying it to friends, colleagues, the revered nd even the worshipped such as Genet, Sartre, Camus or Foucault. Despite this profaning of the term, however, here are many subtle truths which emerge from its usage among such writers.This volume is devoted to exploring certain varied ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Walter Benjamin and Theology

    Edited by Colby Dickinson, Stéphane Symons ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    In the Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin writes that his work is “related to theology as blotting pad is related to ink. It is saturated with it.” For a thinker so decisive to critical literary, cultural, political, and aesthetic writings over the past half-century, Benjamin’s relationship to theological matters has been less observed than it should, even despite a variety of attempts over the last ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD