Givenness of Desire

Concrete Subjectivity and the Natural Desire to See God

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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In The Givenness of Desire, Randall S. Rosenberg examines the human desire for God through the lens of Lonergan’s "concrete subjectivity." Rosenberg engages and integrates two major scholarly developments: the tension between Neo-Thomists and scholars of Henri de Lubac over our natural desire to see God and the theological appropriation of the mimetic theory of René Girard, with an emphasis on the saints as models of desire. With Lonergan as an integrating thread, the author engages a variety of thinkers, including Hans Urs von Balthasar, Jean-Luc Marion, René Girard, James Alison, Lawrence Feingold, and John Milbank, among others. The theme of concrete subjectivity helps to resist the tendency of equating too easily the natural desire for being with the natural desire for God without at the same time acknowledging the widespread distortion of desire found in the consumer culture that infects contemporary life. The Givenness of Desire investigates our paradoxical desire for God that is rooted in both the natural and supernatural.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-09-11
Mått153 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt460 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieLonergan Studies
Antal sidor286
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781487523671

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AcknowledgementsINTRODUCTIONPART ONE: DE LUBAC, RESSOURCEMENT, AND NEO-THOMISMCHAPTER 1: De Lubac’s Lament: Loss of the Supernatural CHAPTER 2: Ressourcement and Neo-Thomism: A Narrative under Scrutiny, A Dialogue Renewed PART TWO: A LONERGAN RETRIEVAL: PURE NATURE TO CONCRETE SUBJECTCHAPTER 3: The Erotic Roots of Intellectual Desire CHAPTER 4: Concretely-Operating Nature: Lonergan on the Natural Desire to See God CHAPTER 5: Being-in-Love and the Desire for the Supernatural: Erotic-Agapic Subjectivity PART III: MIMETIC DESIRE, MODELS OF HOLINESS, AND THE LOVE OF DEVIATED TRANSCENDENCECHAPTER 6: Incarnate Meaning and Mimetic Desire: Saints and the Desire for God CHAPTER 7: The Metaphysics of Holiness and the Longing for God in History: Thérèse of Lisieux and Etty Hillesum CHAPTER 8: Distorted Desire and the Love of Deviated Transcendence CONCLUSION

‘This volume is a valuable resource for any scholar interested in the desire for self-transcendence and the natural desire for God.’- J.M. Meinert (Choice Magazine vol 55:05:2018) "Rosenberg has achieved something rare: a genuine and sympathetic conversation among neo-Scholastics, Lonergan, Girard, and la nouvelle théologie. The result is a valuable and immensely stimulating book, funded by terrific insight, for a theologically sophisticated readership."- Jeremy D. Wilkins (Horizons: The Journal of the College of Theological Society)