The One in the Many: A Contemporary Reconstruction of the God-World Relationship
, by Bracken, Joseph A.
- ISBN: 9780802848925 | 0802848923
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 10/1/2001
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 Jurgen 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. Bracken's unique position advocates 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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