God After Metaphysics : A Theological Aesthetic

A new way of thinking about God and religious experience
While philosophy believes it is impossible to have an experience of God without the senses, theology claims that such an experience is possible, though potentially idolatrous. In this engagingly creative book, John Panteleimon Manoussakis ends the impasse by proposing an aesthetic allowing for a sensuous experience of God that is not subordinated to imposed categories or concepts. Manoussakis draws upon the theological traditions of the Eastern Church, including patristic and liturgical resources, to build a theological aesthetic founded on the inverted gaze of icons, the augmented language of hymns, and the reciprocity of touch. Manoussakis explores how a relational interpretation of being develops a fuller and more meaningful view of the phenomenology of religious experience beyond metaphysics and onto-theology.
Introduction: Do We Need to Transcend
Transcendence? John D. Caputo and Michael J. Scanlon
Part 1. Keynotes of Transcendence
1. The Impossible for Man-God.Jean-Luc Marion
2. Nihilism as Postmodern Christianity.Gianni Vattimo
Part 2. Re-Imagining Traditional Transcendence
3. Re-Imagining God.Richard Kearney
4. Trinity and Transcendence.Michael J. Scanlon
5. Transcendent Immanence and Evolutionary Creation.James P. Mackey
6. G*d – The Many Named: Without Place and Proper Name.Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
Part 3. Relocating Transcendence on the Plane of Immanence
7. Rumors of Transcendence: The Movement, State, and Sex of "Beyond".Catherine Keller
8. Intimations of Transcendence: Praise and Compassion.Salllie McFague
9. Topologies of Transcendence.David Wood
10. Temporal Transcendence: The Very Idea of à venir in Derrida.John D. Caputo
11. Transcendence as Transversality.Calvin Schrag
Transcendence and Beyond: A Concluding Roundtable Moderated by John D. Caputo
Contributors