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A Vindication of Finitude: Maurice Blondel's Ascetic Philosophy

A Vindication of Finitude: Maurice Blondel's Ascetic Philosophy

Levering, Matthew
Rowland, Tracey
Pritz-Bennett, Nomi

Hardcover

Series: T&t Clark Studies in Ressourcement Catholic Theology and Culture

Religion General Catholicism

PREORDER - Expected ship date February 18, 2027

ISBN10: 0567728560
ISBN13: 9780567728562
Publisher: T&T Clark
Published: Feb 18 2027
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Through a fresh reading of the French Catholic philosopher Maurice Blondel, this book confronts a fundamental theological and philosophical problem: how an infinite God can be united to finite human beings without bringing about their annihilation.

Unusually for his time, Blondel is presented as undertaking a proto-ressourcement of ascetic themes drawn from the mystical tradition. This recovery enables him to articulate a robust yet intricate realism that avoids the dangers posed by two competing, annihilative visions of personhood: absorption into nothingness, exemplified by Arthur Schopenhauer, and absorption into the infinite, exemplified by Baruch Spinoza.

Nomi Pritz-Bennett locates Blondel's philosophy of action between two extremes: the nothingness of creatures and their absolute identity with God. She asks how divine-human union can be possible without finite beings ceasing to be themselves and argues that Blondel's answer lies in a reciprocal abnegation of the human and the divine. This work calls for a renewed assessment of the value of ascesis within finite life.

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