research

Theology from a Fractured Vista: Susan Neiman’s \u3cem\u3eEvil in Modern Thought\u3c/em\u3e

Abstract

Evil in Modern Thought, Susan Neiman\u27s account of the intellectual trajectory of modernity, employs the trope “homeless” to articulate deep difficulties that affirmations of divine transcendence and of human capacities to acknowledge transcendence face in a contemporary context thoroughly marked by fragmentation, fragility, and contingency. The “hospitality” of the Incarnation, which makes a fractured world a place for divine welcoming of the human in all its contingency and brokenness, is proposed as locus for theological engagement with Neiman\u27s appropriation of a Kantian sense of hope as the readiness to resist evil in a world seemingly bereft of welcome

    Similar works