{"product_id":"religion-for-thought-writings-and-lectures-volume-5-hardback-9781509565542","title":"Religion For Thought; Writings and Lectures, Volume 5 (Hardback) 9781509565542","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eReligion For Thought\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWritings and Lectures, Volume 5\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePaul Ricoeur (Author), Kathleen Blamey (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509565542, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 October 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.8 x 3 cm, 0.522 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\"\u003eSince the last decade of the twentieth century, there has been talk of a return of religion in Western societies - the very societies that were regarded by many people as undergoing an irreversible process of secularization. Paul Ricoeur's philosophical writings on religion are contemporaneous with this movement of secularization and return, while at the same time his work complicates the schema. In Ricoeur's view, religion is part of the universe of convictions in which subjects live concretely, convictions that deserve to be heard and placed under the lights of argumentation and discussion. \u003cp\u003e   For Ricoeur, religion is the other of philosophy, the non-philosophical par excellence. He did not write a systematic philosophy of religion, but he wrote extensively about religion as a meeting place for language and conviction. The essays in this volume, written between 1953 and 2003, attest to the coherence, richness, and variety of Ricoeur's secular and philosophical approach towards religion. They range over the problem of guilt, the legitimacy or otherwise of Freudian, Marxist, and other critiques of religion, the relation between experience and language in religious discourse, the study of biblical hermeneutics, the nature of religious belief, and reflections on sacrifice, gifts, and debt. Ricoeur draws on religion to think, while not neglecting the analysis of religion itself. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e These texts by one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century will be of interest to students and scholars of philosophy and theology and to anyone concerned with the enduring role of religion in the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eEditor's Introduction\u003cbr\u003eNote on this edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI\u003cbr\u003eGuilt, the Intersection\u003cbr\u003eof Philosophy and Religion\u003cbr\u003e1. Tragic Guilt and Biblical Guilt\u003cbr\u003eI. Finitude and Guilt\u003cbr\u003eII. \"\"Tragic Fault\"\"\u003cbr\u003eIII. \"\"Biblical Sin\"\"\u003cbr\u003eIV. Subterranean Affinities\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII\u003cbr\u003eConfronting the Modern Critique\u003cbr\u003eof Religion\u003cbr\u003e2. Freudian Psychoanalysis and Christian Faith\u003cbr\u003eI. Rules for Reading Freud\u003cbr\u003eII. Religion and Instinct\u003cbr\u003eIII. Religion and Fantasy\u003cbr\u003eIV. Value and Limits of the Psychoanalysis of Religion\u003cbr\u003e3. The Hermeneutics of Secularization\u003cbr\u003eFaith, Ideology, Utopia\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Secularization as a Hermeneutical Question\u003cbr\u003eI. The Dialectic of Utopia and Ideology\u003cbr\u003eII. Faith Between Ideology and Utopia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII\u003cbr\u003eHermeneutics of Religious Language\u003cbr\u003e4. Manifestation and Proclamation\u003cbr\u003eI. Phenomenology of Manifestation\u003cbr\u003eII. The Hermeneutics of Proclamation\u003cbr\u003eIII. Towards What Mediation?\u003cbr\u003e5. The interpretive Narrative\u003cbr\u003eExegesis and Theology in the Narratives of the Passion\u003cbr\u003eI. From Kerygma to the Narrative\u003cbr\u003eII. Narrative Articulation\u003cbr\u003eIII. Sketch of the Literary Analysis of the Narratives of the Passion in the Gospel of Mark\u003cbr\u003e6. Experience and Language in Religious Discourse\u003cbr\u003eI. Difficulties of a Phenomenology of Religion\u003cbr\u003eII. Interlude: The Great Code\u003cbr\u003eIII. The Bible, a Polyphonic Text\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIV\u003cbr\u003eThe Kantian Line\u003cbr\u003e7. Theonomy and\/or Autonomy\u003cbr\u003eI. Thinking Theonomy\u003cbr\u003eII. From Theonomy to Autonomy\u003cbr\u003e8. Religious belief. The Difficult Path of the Religious\u003cbr\u003eI. The Capable Human Being, the Addressee of Religion\u003cbr\u003eII. The Difficulties of the Religious\u003cbr\u003eIII. Consequences\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eV\u003cbr\u003eFinal Dialogues on the Overabundance of the Gift\u003cbr\u003e9. \"\"Considerations on the Triad: Sacrifice, Debt, Grace\"\"\u003cbr\u003eAccording to Marcel Hénaff\u003cbr\u003eI.\u003cbr\u003eII.\u003cbr\u003eIII.\u003cbr\u003e10. Paul the Apostle. Proclamation and Argumentation\u003cbr\u003eRecent Readings\u003cbr\u003eI. Proclamation and Rupture\u003cbr\u003eII. Aporetic Transition\u003cbr\u003eIII. Strategies of Argumentation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOrigin of the Texts\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20%5BHP%5D%22\"\u003eHP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52441815089432,"sku":"9781509565542","price":46.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509565542.jpg?v=1785026891","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/religion-for-thought-writings-and-lectures-volume-5-hardback-9781509565542","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}