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The One in the Many: A Contemporary Reconstruction of the God-World Relationship
by: Joseph A. Bracken

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 231.7
EAN: 9780802848925
ISBN: 0802848923
Label: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Manufacturer: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 234
Publication Date: 2001-10
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Sales Rank: 894816
Studio: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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Classical notions of truth and objectivity have steadily eroded in the face of postmodernism. Meeting this challenge head-on, Joseph Bracken here reconstructs the metaphysical tradition of the West on solid new foundations. Drawing on the thought of Alfred North Whitehead, Ervin Laszlo, and Jürgen Habermas, Bracken presents a new philosophical perspective that roots the relationship between God and the world in community.

Bracken first answers objections to the possibility of developing a new metaphysics in our postmodern age. He then lays out the 'vertical' and 'horizontal' dimensions of his new metaphysical scheme, a constructive perspective that results in a consciously communitarian understanding of the God-world relationship. The uniqueness of Bracken's position is its advocacy of a strictly 'social ontology' in which the classical relationship of the One and the Many is reversed — not the transcendence of the One over the Many but its emergence out of the Many in dynamic relationship.

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- Process-Relational Metaphysics Articulated in Trinitarian Terms
In this work, Bracken articulates Whitehead's process-relational metaphysics and/or Hartshorne's dipolar theism in trinitarian terms. He analyzes the works of numerous academicians and weaves their thought into what he calls a "social ontology" and a "metaphysics of intersubjectivity." In particular, he intends to "reconstruct" the Thomistic metaphysics of "being" with the Whiteheadian metaphysics of "becoming." He is also intent on ensuring that some basic Catholic doctrines remain intact - namely, "creation ex nihilo," and "subjective immortality" (Hartshorne rejected subjective immortality, something that I always felt was religiously inadequate).

The bottom line is that this a wonderful read. I really enjoyed it! I was amazed with Bracken's ability to distill the thought of so many eminent intellectuals and present the essence of their thinking in a nutshell. He covers a lot of ground here. Along ... Read More

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