The Ways of Wisdom: Towards a Global, Postsecular, Convivencia Theology

The Ways of Wisdom answers the demand for a new kind of theology appropriate for a postsecular, global civilization, showing how to engage questions of meaning and value across as well as within traditions. Arguing that humanity is the desire to be God, The Ways of Wisdom analyzes the diverse ways in which humanity has pursued this aim, and argues for a synthesis that draws on the great spiritual traditions of the Axial Age as well as on the humanistic secular commitment to innerworldly civilizational progress and social justice. At the same time, it rejects both the technocratic god-building that it argues is the hegemonic ideal of the Saeculum in which we live and the radical immanentism that imagined that we could create a collective political subject that would make us the masters of our own destiny, proposing instead what it calls Sanctuary, a way of life centered on seeking wisdom, doing justice, and ripening Being.

Author: Anthony E. Mansueto
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 03/18/2016
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781498200264

About the Author
A scholar of religion with roots in social theory, philosophy, and theology, Anthony Mansueto is Associate Professor of Global Studies at the University of the District of Columbia and President of Seeking Wisdom, an interfaith research, education, and organizing institute.