... human-centered theology. Many ancient and medieval readings of each of these mythic figures, though, particularly within the versions of the religious traditions that emphasize Wisdom, offer possibilities for readings that expand knowing, agency, and even divinity into all of the matter of the world...

...This opening chapter provides a brief introduction to and exposition of Merold Westphal's “prophetic” philosophy of religion. It focuses primarily on the wisdom of humility that characterizes his thought and how that wisdom, expressed through the redemptive dynamic of doubt, may contribute...

...This chapter presents connections between the works of Merold Westphal and Luce Irigaray about the “way of love” and wisdom in postmodern Christian philosophy. It reveals that love is a gift or calling that needs to be heard and heeded to be experienced as an invigorating blessing. caress...

...Merold Westphal has been in the foremost ranks of philosophers who proclaim a new post-secular philosophy. By articulating an epistemology sensitive to the realities of cognitive finitude and moral weakness, he defends a wisdom that begins in both humility and commitment, one that always confesses...

... of nihilism reality Aristotilian conception of scientific method atheism baptism charity actual eternal life faith charity God grace baptism hope John Paul II Cain natural definition of Plato supernatural virtues grace Christian life divine wisdom existence of God human will divine...

...This chapter argues that the contemplative, after long exercise in meditation and discretion, abandons clear and distinct knowledge to be guided by a love that finds a new and superior knowledge. This is the wisdom which is the gift of the Holy Spirit. As love finds wisdom, wisdom leads to deeper...

...Along with other texts of wisdom literature, the Song of Songs is largely neglected in Protestant churches, especially conservative ones, in favor of primary focus on the Hebrew prophets. The prophetic teachings on economics and rich-poor relations seem to be steadily ignored by most churches...

...Wisdom literature is preoccupied with questions about sociopolitical and economic survival and in presenting the role wisdom plays in gaining access to the resources necessary for the maintenance of life. This essay proposes that reading wealth with Wisdom to invite its reinterpretation...

... of Wisdom Serpent’s Gift Mutants & Mystics No creatures can reach God in their capacity of created things, and what is created must be broken for the good to come out. The shell must be broken for the kernel to come out. —Meister Eckhart, Sermon 24 Had I not as a child been brutalized by whoever...

... ensnares and deceives young men through wily tricks. Considered as the countertype of Wisdom (portrayed as a woman in Proverbs 1–9) and the “woman of strength” (eshet ḥayil) of Proverbs 31:10–31, the “strange woman” provoked abundant commentary among post-biblical Jewish exegetes who...

...This chapter examines Christianity's relation to the law and justifies the utility of an apologetics of the law for Christian theology through an analysis of Karl Barth's notion of the freedom of the law. This chapter concludes with an interpretation of the nexus between law and wisdom in the Book...

... practical applications. In this light, the text highlights the value of reading for thrills, reading for art, and reading for wisdom on one hand as it emphasizes the qualitative and quantitative limitations in the analysis of reading on the other. Novel theory and history of Pound Ezra Reading and change...

... hovers agonizingly at the brink of a theology of “becoming” that is also a “becoming-theology,” evading the static doctrinalism to which he elsewhere more wholeheartedly succumbs. It also considers the theological potentialities of the Augustinian Wisdom Mother. Augustine Confessions Augustine Feminist...

...This concluding chapter links together Blaise Pascal's Pensées, conceived in the years before his death in 1662 and first edited as late as 1844, and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851) by way of the theme of the “wisdom of the heart”. Our everyday experience...

... a transfeminist version of feminist theology, it outlines three criteria: entanglement, considered as relationality stretched from intimacy to infinity; unknowing, considered as apophatic uncertainty stretched from ignorance to wisdom; and multiplicity, considered as the teaching of the manifold, stretched from...

... of covenantal existence generates a new conception of the meaning of divine wisdom and judgment and the connection between this account of judgment and the non-teleological character of divine forgiveness. abiding Bible freedom law Biblical citations creation election redemption Von Rad on Von Rad G...

... these two contrasting positions there are several mediating positions, which make the third category. Meanwhile, faith and reason, as described by John Paul II, are united like the two natures of Christ, which coexisted without confusion or alteration in a single person. Christian wisdom, similarly...

...This chapter examines the nature of the dark wisdom of the Gift of the Holy Spirit. It holds that the gift of wisdom is not the prerogative of contemplatives but is possessed by all who are in charity. The chapter concludes that the mysticism of the author of The Cloud is ordinary...

... are not autonomous but inseparable—in effect, his ethical system is an “ontological morality.” For Thomas, the ethical (practical wisdom) must be understood as an extension of the metaphysical (speculative wisdom). Most modern philosophers, by contrast, consider these two orders to be entirely separate. Here...

... a second sight to bear on the hidden and often neglected truths of first sight. It seeks to offer a form of recognition newer than cognition and older than perception. In doing so, it hopes to serve as a modest guide to terrestrial wisdom. Hopkins Gerard Manley kingdom Duns Scotus Heidegger Martin...