God, the Mind's Desire Reference, Reason and Christian Thinking [Paperback]

This 2004 book argues for both integrity of reason and integrity of transcendence in discourse about God.'How can human discourse refer meaningfully to a transcendent God?' Paul Janz's book reconfigures this fundamental problem of Christian thinking as a twofold demand for integrity: integrity of reason and integrity of transcendence. It centres around a fresh yet faithful re-reading of Kant's empirical realism formulated against a wide-ranging backdrop of current concerns, and argues for the preservation of integrity on both fronts. Drawing on MacKinnon, Bonhoeffer, Barth and Marion, it challenges recent rushes to obscurantism and radicalization and culminates in a convergence between Christology and epistemology within empirical reality.'How can human discourse refer meaningfully to a transcendent God?' Paul Janz's book reconfigures this fundamental problem of Christian thinking as a twofold demand for integrity: integrity of reason and integrity of transcendence. It centres around a fresh yet faithful re-reading of Kant's empirical realism formulated against a wide-ranging backdrop of current concerns, and argues for the preservation of integrity on both fronts. Drawing on MacKinnon, Bonhoeffer, Barth and Marion, it challenges recent rushes to obscurantism and radicalization and culminates in a convergence between Christology and epistemology within empirical reality.How can human discourse refer meaningfully to a transcendent God? Paul Janz's book reconfigures this fundamental problem of Christian thinking as a twofold demand for integrity--integrity of reason and integrity of transcendence. It centers around an original yet faithful re-reading of Kant's empirical realism. Drawing on MacKinnon, Bonhoeffer, Barth and Marion, Janz challenges recent rushes to obscurantism and radicalization and culminates in a convergence between Christology and epistemology within empirical reality.1. A reconnaissance of theology and epistemology; 2. Theology and the lure of obscul3#