We all seek salvation, claims Blanco, because we all become prisoners of negativity. Humanity wants to be saved, we want to overcome the negativity that so often enslaves us. But, where is the saviour to be found, and where is the source of salvation?In Philosophy and Salvation Blanco argues that salvation may only come from the infinite springs of the word. 'The word saves us: the word of science, the word manifested in art, the word of a society which promises something for itself . . . Humanity understands itself through language: human beings use words in order to know each other and to cooperate in the edification of something that may transcend them. The word invites us, and in fact leads us to transcendence. This is salvation: to inaugurate a new world in which the former negativity may be overcome'. Blanco looks back over the history of philosophical and theological thought to bring his argument to life for all seeking salvation today.
Carlos Blanco is the author of 'El Pensamiento de la Apocalíptica Judía', 'Why Resurrection?' (Lutterworth Press, 2011), and 'Mentes Maravillosas que Cambiaron la Humanidad'. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University, and he is currently a researcher and professor at Instituto de Cultura y Sociedad (Spain).
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Salvific Dimension of ThoughtPart 1: In Search of Fundamentum1 Philosophy beyond Science2 The Senses of Being3 The Dynamism of BeingExcursus: On the Dimensions of Being and the Limitations of the Principle of Non-contradictionPart 2: Fundamentum in History4 Consciousness beyond the World: Freedom5 Freedom beyond Itself: Solidarity6 Solidarity beyond Itself: CreationExcursus: A Salvific History for AllExcursus: From the 'Thrownness' into the World to the Kingdom of EndsExcursus: The Concept of Religion and the Scope of TheologyExcursus: The Names of Humanity and the Utopia of a Redeemed PastPart 3: Questioning as Salvation7 Death as Challenge8 Wisdom, Love, and BeautyEpilogue: Only a God Can Still Save UsAppendicesAppendix A: Hegel:History, Theodicy, Art, and RedemptionAppendix B: Dilthey and the Legitimacy of the 'Sciences of the Spirit'Appendix C: Religion as Illusion in Sigmund FreudAppendix D: The Conception of God as Das Ganz-Andere in Rudolf OttoAppendix E: God, the Future, and the Fundamentum of History in Wolfhart PannenbergAppendix F: The Rose and Its ReasonBibliography
"Philosophy and Salvation is an intellectual cum insightful well researched book which explores humanity in an engaging approach of classical, modern, continental philosophy and philosophers."-Romero D'Souza, Theological Book Review, Vol. 26 No. 2, 2015