A theological exploration of human nature engaging with modernist and postmodernist thought, and emphasising the reality and significance of our physical being.
Radical embodiment' refers to an epistemology and anthropology fundamentally rooted in our bodies as always in correlation with our natural and social environments. All human rationality, meaning, and value arise not only instrumentally but also substantively from this embodiment in the world. Radical embodiment reacts against Enlightenment mind-body dualism, as well as its monistic offshoots, including the physicalism that reduces everything to component matter/energy at the expense of subjectivity and meaning. It also rejects certain forms of postmodernism that reinscribe modern dualisms. David H. Nikkel develops and explores this perspective of 'radical embodiment' by examining varieties of modern and postmodern theology, and the nature and role of tradition - in terms of linguistic and non-linguistic experience, the religion and science dialogue on the nature of consciousness, and the immanent and transcendent aspects of God.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
Discerning the Spirits of Modernity and Postmodernity
Postmodernism(s) and Tradition
The Body in Tradition; Tradition as Body
Radical Embodiment in Light of the Science and Religion Dialogue
The Postmodern Spirit and the Status of God
Radical Embodiment and Transcendence
Bibliography
Index
