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Simone Weil and Theology

Simone Weil and Theology

Stone, Lucian
Rozelle-Stone, A. Rebecca
Rozelle-Stone, Rebecca A.

Hardcover

Series: Philosophy and Theology

PhilosophyReligion General

ISBN10: 0567537242
ISBN13: 9780567537249
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: May 23 2013
Pages: 192
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

Simone Weil - philosopher, religious thinker, mystic, social/political activist - is notoriously difficult to categorize, since her life and writings challenge traditional academic boundaries. As many scholars have recognized, she set out few, if any, systematic theories, especially when it came to religious ideas. In this book, A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone and Lucian Stone illuminate the ways in which Weil stands outside Western theological tradition by her use of paradox to resist the clamoring for greater degrees of certainty. Beyond a facile fallibilism, Simone Weil's ideas about the super-natural, love, Christianity, and spiritual action, and indeed, her seeming endorsement of a sort of atheism, detachment, foolishness, and passivity, begin to unravel old assumptions about what it is to encounter the divine.

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