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9781563383823

Fragments of the Spirit Nature, Violence, and the Renewal of Creation

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    9781563383823

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    1563383829

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-01-01
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark
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Summary

Arguing that the Holy Spirit is best understood not as a metaphysical entity but as a healing life-force, Mark Wallace offers a powerful vision of the Spirit as an agent of transformation in a world racked by interhuman violence and ecological abuse.

Author Biography

Mark I. Wallace is Associate Professor of Religion at Swarthmore College

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Introduction 1(1)
Ecological Pneumatology
2(6)
Outline of the Project
8(7)
Part One: Methodological Overtures
Theology, Rhetoric, and Postmodernism
15(21)
Writing the Spirit
15(5)
Postmodern Presuppositions
20(14)
Erasure of Self
22(3)
Deprivileging of Metaphysics
25(2)
Breakdown of Metanarratives
27(3)
Revalorization of Nature
30(2)
Failure of Theodicy
32(2)
Conclusion
34(2)
Metaphysics, Neoempiricism, and the Possibility of Religious Belief
36(27)
Should Theology Seek to Overcome Its Affinities with Metaphysics?
40(3)
Transcendental Theology and the Quest for Certainty: Schubert Ogden
43(5)
A Rhetorical Response
48(6)
Private Truth and Strong Poets
54(4)
Richard Rorty
A False Alternative
58(4)
Conclusion
62(1)
Performative Truth and the Witness of the Spirit
63(28)
The Spirit Is the Lamp of the Truth: I
66(2)
Wittgenstein and Basic Beliefs
68(8)
The Face in Levinas
76(4)
The Spirit Is the Lamp of the Truth: II
80(2)
A Kierkegaardian Caveat
82(4)
Conclusion
86(5)
Part Two: Toward a Life-Centered Theology of the Spirit
The Spirit and Desire: Sacrificial Violence and Moral Insurgency
91(42)
The Servile Will
92(3)
Mimesis, Difference, Violence: Rene Girard's Analysis of Desire
95(13)
Mediated Desire
96(1)
Loss of Differences
97(2)
Scapegoats, Racism, and AIDS
99(5)
Double Valence of the Victim
104(4)
Questions Concerning the Victimage Hypothesis
108(3)
Alternative Theories of Interpretation
111(7)
Paul Ricoeur
Jacques Derrida
Traces of the Spirit
118(11)
A Corollary Notion of Difference: Michel Foucault's Analysis of Power
129(2)
Conclusion
131(2)
The Spirit and Nature: The Wild Bird Who Heals
133(38)
The Spirit as Life-Form
134(5)
Sallie McFague and Christian Paganism
139(5)
The Vinculum Caritatis in Creation
144(4)
Composting Religion
148(6)
Jusia Kristeva
Mary Douglas
``Spirit Is But Thinly and Plainly Clothed'': John Muir's Wilderness Pneumatology
154(4)
Job, Genesis, and the Promise of Biocentrism
158(4)
Pilgrims or Stewards
162(6)
Conclusion
168(3)
The Spirit and Evil: Eyeless in Gaza (Again)
171(38)
Three Genres: Speculation, Narrative, Wisdom
173(3)
Richard Swinburne and the Value of Moral Responsibility
176(3)
The Problem of Gratuitous Evil
179(3)
Ronald Thiemann and the God of Promise
182(5)
The Other Face of God
187(2)
Paul Ricoeur's Theodicy in a Practical Register
189(9)
Is the Spirit Friend or Enemy?
198(8)
Conclusion
206(3)
Prospects for Renewal
209(20)
Biblical Portraiture
211(2)
Final Suggestions
213(12)
Truth as Inner Testimony
213(1)
The Spirit and Boundary Crossing
214(6)
Sojourner Ethic
220(3)
Aporia of Biblical Faith
223(2)
The Green Face of God
225(4)
Index 229

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