Philosophies of Christianity

Balázs M. Mezei is professor of philosophy at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary. He has published more than 30 books and 150 scholarly articles on philosophy of religion, phenomenology, and political and literary criticism. His Radical Revelation: A Philosophical Approach is published by Bloomsbury in 2017. He is editor-in-chief of The Oxford Handbook of Divine Revelation.  Matthew Z. VALE is a doctoral student in Systematic Theology and World Religions and World Church at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana), where he is a Richard and Peggy Notebaert Premier Fellow. His work focuses on Christian theological engagement with Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, as well as on a range of topics in Christian systematic theology. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Religious Studies and English Literature at Rice University (Houston, Texas). He lives in South Bend with his wife, Beáta, and son, Elias.

• Chapter 1. Introduction (Balázs M. Mezei).- Chapter 2. God and Religion (Miklós Vetö).- Chapter 3. On Saturated Phenomena and the Hyperboles of Being (William Desmond).- Chapter 4. From Philosophical Theology to Philosophy of Religion: An Illocutionary Turning Point (Savina Raynaud).- Chapter 5. The Limits of Univocity in Interreligious Relationality (Richard Schenk).- Chapter 6. Religion, Theology, and Philosophy in Heidegger’s Thought (István M. Fehér).- Chapter 7. Apocalyptic Phenomenology: A Radical Philosophical Theology of Revelation (Balázs M. Mezei).- Chapter 8. Žižek and the Theological Foundation of the Secular (Cyril O’Regan).- Chapter 9. Étienne Gilson and Marie-Dominique Chenu: ‘Choisisme’ (Francesca Aran Murphy).- Chapter 10. Mere Metaphysics:  Between East and West (John Betz).- Chapter 11. Appropriation and Polemics. Karl Jaspers’s Criticism of Kierkegaard’s Concept of Religion (István Czakó).- Chapter 12. The Paradoxes of Love: Some Theological Remarks on theWork of Harry Frankfurt (Kenneth Oakes).- Chapter 13. Love in the Horizon of Being: Erich Przywara’s Engagement with Max Scheler (Matthew Vale).- Chapter 14. The Role of Catholic Philosophy in the Evolution of Western Civilization: The Vision of Rodney Stark (Máté Botos).