Religious Experience and the End of Metaphysics

Does religious thinking stand in opposition to postmodernity? Does the existence of God present the ultimate challenge to metaphysics? Strands of continental thought, especially those running from Kant, Husserl and Heidegger, focus on individual consciousness as the horizon for all meaning and provide modern philosophy of religion with much of its present ferment. In this volume, 11 influential continental philosophers share the conviction that religious thinking cannot afford to disengage from the challenges of modern European philosophy. Together they provide a set of answers to questions surrounding the meaning of religious experience. Topics include subjectivity, selfhood, and rationality; language, community, and ethics; the influence of Jewish and eastern religions on religious experience; God as phenomenology; and religion in the postmodern age. These essays bring together many of the leading voices in the contemporary continental debate on God and religion.
Contents: Introduction - Religion, Metaphysics, and Experience, Jeffrey Bloechl; The Disappearance of Philosophical Theology in Hermeneutic Philosophy - Historicizing and Hermeneuticizing the Philosophical Idea of God, Ben Vedder (Catholic University of Nijmegen); Rethinking God - Heidegger in Light of Absolute Nothing, Nishida in the Shadow of Onto-theology, John C. Maraldo; Light and Shadows from the Heideggerian Interpretation of the Sacred, Emilio Brito (Catholic University of Louvain); The Word and Complement of Appearing, Jean-Yves Lacoste; Affective Theology, Theological Affectivity, Adriaan Peperzak; Immanent Transcendence as Way to "God" - Between Heidegger and Marion, Ignace Verhack (Catholic University of Louvain); Derrida and Marion - Two Husserlian Revolutions, John D. Caputo; The Universal in Jewish Particularism: Benamozegh and Levinas, Richard A. Cohen; The Kingdom and the Trinity, Kevin Hart; Ultimacy and Conventionality in Religious Experience, Joseph S. O´Leary.