Research Catalog

Title

A rhetorics of the word : a philosophy of Christian life, part II / George Pattison.

Author

Pattison, George, 1950-

Publication

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2019]

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Subject

• Christian life > Philosophy
• Vocation
• Language and languages > Religious aspects > Christianity
• Conscience
• Christianity > Philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-270) and index.

Contents

A crisis of vocation -- Political calling in an age of technology -- Prophetic calling : at the burning bush -- In the beginning was the Word -- At the name of Jesus -- The call of conscience -- Poetic vocation.

Call Number

JFE 20-5145

ISBN

• 9780198813514
• 0198813511

LCCN

2019945695

OCLC

1124261694

Author

Pattison, George, 1950- author.

Title

A rhetorics of the word : a philosophy of Christian life, part II / George Pattison.

Publisher

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Edition

First edition.

Description

275 pages ; 24 cm

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-270) and index.

Summary

"A Rhetorics of the Word is the second volume of a three-part philosophy of Christian life. It approaches Christian life as expressive of a divine calling or vocation. The word Church (ekklesia) and the role of naming in baptism indicate the fundamental place of calling in Christian life. However, ideas of vocation are difficult to access in a world shaped by the experience of disenchantment. The difficulties of articulating vocation are explored with reference to Weber, Heidegger, and Kierkegaard. These are further connected to a general crisis of language, manifesting in the degradation of political discourse (Arendt) and the impact of new communications technology on human discourse. This impact can be seen as reinforcing an occlusion of language in favour of rationality already evidenced in the philosophical tradition and technocratic management. New possibilities for thinking vocation are pursued through the biblical prophets (with emphasis on Buber's and Rosenzweig's reinterpretation of the call of Moses), Saint John, and Russian philosophies of language (Florensky to Bakhtin). Vocation emerges as bound up with the possibility of being name bearers, enabling a mutuality of call and response. This is then evidenced further in ethics and poetics, where Levinas and Hermann Broch (The Death of Virgil) become major points of reference. In conclusion, the themes of calling and the name are seen to shape the possibility of love-the subject of the final part of the philosophy of Christian life: A Metaphysics of Love." -- Publisher, page four of dust jacket.

Added Author

Pattison, George, 1950- Philosophy of Christian life.

Research Call Number

JFE 20-5145