{"product_id":"a-philosophy-of-prayer-nothingness-language-and-hope-paperback-softback-9781531506834","title":"A Philosophy of Prayer; Nothingness, Language, and Hope (Paperback \/ softback) 9781531506834","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Philosophy of Prayer\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNothingness, Language, and Hope\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGeorge Pattison (Author), John D. Caputo (Series edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781531506834\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 2 July 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e192 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm, 0.302 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExploring the silence of prayer in Post-Kantian philosophy and traditional spirituality\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eA Philosophy of Prayer \u003c\/i\u003eexplores prayer within the perspective of post-Kantian philosophy. Against a background of traditional sources, including Augustine, \u003ci\u003eThe Cloud of Unknowing\u003c\/i\u003e, and the seventeenth-century French school of spirituality, the book uses Schleiermacher, Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Heidegger, Berdyaev, Tillich, Marcel, Simone Weil, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jean- Louis Chrétien to provide an interpretation of what is meant by the passivity and self-annihilation of the praying self, suggesting an \"apophatics of the personality.\"\u003cbr\u003e Pattison pays particular attention to the question of language and the implications of the role given to silence in traditional texts, arguing that language remains a defining element of the human–God relationship and that silence is not to be construed as the negation of language but as the revelation of the depth of language itself. The basic structure of prayer is shown to be implicitly eschatological, oriented toward a coming kingdom of justice and peace while, at the same time, expressing a deep desire for ontological homecoming, a tension manifest in, respectively, Levinas and Heidegger. On Pattison's reading, prayer calls for and develops a particular orientation of the self toward existence, corresponding to the virtue of humility, long understood as the basic Christian virtue. This is shown to be in tension with modernity's commitment to strong versions of autonomy. However, the choice of humility is not presented as the reinstatement of religious heteronomy but as a free choice of the praying self.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePreface \u003c\/b\u003e  xi\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1 \u003c\/b\u003eAnnihilation   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2 \u003c\/b\u003eUnknowing   17\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3 \u003c\/b\u003eMystery   34\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4 \u003c\/b\u003eWords   51\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5 \u003c\/b\u003ePreaching   68\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6 \u003c\/b\u003ePromise   83\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e7 \u003c\/b\u003eHeight   96\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e8 \u003c\/b\u003eHomecoming   110\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e9 \u003c\/b\u003eHumility   123\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePostscript \u003c\/b\u003e  141\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e  143\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSelect Bibliography\u003c\/i\u003e   163\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e  171\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52656074260760,"sku":"9781531506834","price":21.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-philosophy-of-prayer-nothingness-language-and-hope-paperback-softback-9781531506834","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}