How Long to Read Beyond Realism: Seeking the Divine Other

How Long Does it Take to Read Beyond Realism: Seeking the Divine Other?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 44 minutes to read Beyond Realism: Seeking the Divine Other by Simon Smith

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The meaning of “God-talk” remains the fundamental issue facing religious thinkers today. This study concerns the analogies needed to make sense of that talk. Embracing those analogies signals the application of Austin Farrer’s cutting-edge theology. Almost fifty years after his death, Farrer remains one of the twentieth century’s last great metaphysical minds, his grasp of faith and philosophy unequalled. Having defended religious thought against both Positivist and Process reduction, he pursued his own revision of scholastic tradition, ultimately developing the vital corrective to an overweening impersonalism, one which depersonalises the divine so severs the cosmological connection. Following this course returns us to an earlier tradition, to a metaphysic of persons exemplified in the expressions of lived faith. This draws upon the logic of personal identity: what it means to be, or rather, to become, a person. Hence, journey’s end lies in a Feuerbachian anthropology of theology or ‘anthropotheism’. Like Farrer, Feuerbach used the believer’s language to relocate theology and philosophy within a framework that makes fertile use of anthropomorphic personifications to ‘think’ God. Revisiting the personalist presuppositions of metaphysics in this way throws light on the most vital questions of personal identity. To answer them is to ‘draw’ reality on a grander scale than either realism or consequentialism is capable of. Most importantly, it is locate our place within that image. Doing theology dynamically or psychologically informed – as both Farrer and Feuerbach insisted – means recognising the constitutive role such images play in self-construction. Without active participation in our ideals and aspirations, we cannot become persons at all; participation entails the enactment of our prospective selves. This returns us to the practice of piety: faith in a Godly person. Here we find the reconstruction of Feuerbach’s anthropology as applied theology and, by extension or amplification, the completion of Farrer’s personalist metaphysics.

How long is Beyond Realism: Seeking the Divine Other?

Beyond Realism: Seeking the Divine Other by Simon Smith is 342 pages long, and a total of 86,184 words.

This makes it 115% the length of the average book. It also has 105% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Beyond Realism: Seeking the Divine Other Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 50 minutes to read Beyond Realism: Seeking the Divine Other aloud.

What Reading Level is Beyond Realism: Seeking the Divine Other?

Beyond Realism: Seeking the Divine Other is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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