Augustine and Postmodern Thought

A New Alliance against Modernity?

Edited by L. Boeve Edited by M. Lamberigts Edited by M. Wisse

Book cover: Augustine and Postmodern Thought

Extent: 277 pages

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Subjects: Language & Linguistics, Religious Studies

Series: Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium

Series volume number: 219

Language: English

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(May 2009)

ISBN: 9789042921207

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On November 9-11, 2006, the Research Group ‘Theology in a Postmodern Context’ (K.U.Leuven) organised an expert symposium on the return of Augustine in current postmodern philosophical-theological debates. The North-African Church Father, or at least the thinking patterns or intuitions borrowed from him, are often invoked in discussions on the relation between Christian faith and the contemporary postmodern context. On the one hand, one observes the retrieval of rather premodern approaches in order to remedy the so-called (post-)modern crisis, which is said to result in nihilism, relativism, etc. For what seems to attract some theologians in Augustinian thinking is the (apparent) marriage between Greek (neo-Platonic) philosophy and Christian faith. Such a combination of premodern metaphysics and Christian faith would serve as a necessary presupposition for every legitimate theological epistemology. On the other hand, there are theologians and philosophers who are increasingly trying to reread Augustine from a postmodern stance, stressing the role of particularity, narrativity, historicity, and the decentring of subjectivity, which they see present in Augustine’s approach, or from which they deconstruct Augustine’s thinking. Central questions discussed during the symposium were: Are the analyses, offered by authors who are re-introducing Augustine with respect to the contemporary context, correct? To what diagnosed problems, and on what basis, do they propose Augustine as a remedy? Are their presentations of other theological and philosophical responses to the present situation correct and which ‘Augustine’ do they claim to represent? More fundamentally: what would a genuine Augustinian epistemology look like, and what can we gain from it? In what way can it be normative for a theological epistemology in our day? In answering these questions, the symposium focused explicitly on contemporary philosophical and theological evaluations of both modernity and postmodernity, and theological responses to them.

Edited by L. Boeve
Edited by M. Lamberigts
Edited by M. Wisse

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