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Deleuze and Theology Summary

Deleuze and Theology by Dr Christopher Ben Simpson (Lincoln Christian University, USA)

What can a theologian do with Deleuze? While using philosophy as a resource for theology is nothing new, Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) presents a kind of limit-case for such a theological appropriation of philosophy: a thoroughly modern philosophy that would seem to be fundamentally hostile to Christian theology--a philosophy of atheistic immanence with an essentially chaotic vision of the world. Nonetheless, Deleuze's philosophy can generate many potential intersections with theology opening onto a field of configurations: a fractious middle between radical Deleuzian theologies that would think through theology and reinterpret it from the perspective of some version of Deleuzian philosophy and other theologies that would seek to learn from and respond to Deleuze from the perspective of confessional theology--to take from the encounter with Deleuze an opportunity to clarify and reform an orthodox Christian self-understanding.

Deleuze and Theology Reviews

Deleuze and Theology is a timely arrival to the field of 'encounters' between its two protagonists, presenting an admirably clear exposition both of Deleuze and of his varied readers and a sensitive repositioning of the disparate critiques of Deleuze's much-debated spiritual content. -- Simone Kotva, Emmanuel College, Cambridge * Reviews in Religion and Theology *

About Dr Christopher Ben Simpson (Lincoln Christian University, USA)

Christopher Ben Simpson is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Lincoln Christian University, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction; PART ONE: Deleuze in Brief; Chapter 1: Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995): Bio, Biblio; Chapter 2: Deleuze's Philosophical System; PART TWO: Deleuze and Theology; Chapter 3: Approaching Deleuze's Theology and Theological Appropriations; Chapter 4: The Divine Life I: Difference, Becoming, and The Trinity; Chapter 5: Creation, Transcendence, Immanence; Chapter 6: The Human and the Inhuman; Chapter 7: The Christ of Philosophers; Chapter 8: The Divine Life II: Salvation, Affirmation, and Becoming-God; Endnotes; Bibliography; Indices.

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9780567363350
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Deleuze and Theology by Dr Christopher Ben Simpson (Lincoln Christian University, USA)
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2012-09-20
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