{"product_id":"a-phenomenology-of-the-devout-life-a-philosophy-of-christian-life-part-i-9780198813507","title":"A Phenomenology of the Devout Life: A Philosophy of Christian Life, Part I","description":"\u003cem\u003eA Phenomenology of the Devout Life\u003c\/em\u003e is the first part of a three-part work, \u003cem\u003eA Philosophy of Christian Life\u003c\/em\u003e. Rather than approaching Christianity through its doctrinal statements, as philosophers of religion have often done, the book starts by offering a phenomenological description of the\u003cbr\u003edevout life as that is set out in the teaching of Francois de Sales and related authors. This is because for most Christians practice and life-commitments are more fundamental than formal doctrinal beliefs. Although George Pattison will address the metaphysical truth-claims of Christianity in Part\u003cbr\u003ethree, the guiding argument is that it is the Christian way of life that best reveals what these beliefs really are. As the work is a philosophical study, it does not presuppose the truth of Christianity but assumes only that there is a humanly accessible meaning to the intention to live a devout\u003cbr\u003elife, pleasing to God. This can be said to find expression in a certain view of selfhood that emphasizes the dimensions of feeling and will rather than intellect and that culminates in the experience of the annihilation of self. This is a model of selfhood deeply opposed to contemporary models that\u003cbr\u003eprivilege autonomous agency and the devout life is therefore presented as offering a corrective to extreme versions of the contemporary view.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e George Pattison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/25\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198813507\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGeorge Pattison\u003c\/strong\u003e is 1640 Professor of Divinity at the University of Glasgow and a Visiting Professor at the University of Copenhagen. He has published extensively in modern theology, especially relating to Hegel and his nineteenth and twentieth- century interpreters and critics-notably Kierkegaard\u003cbr\u003eand Heidegger, and with a particular interest in Russian religious thought. His publications include \u003cem\u003eThinking about God in an Age of Technology\u003c\/em\u003e (2005), \u003cem\u003eGod and Being\u003c\/em\u003e (2011), \u003cem\u003eKierkegaard and the Quest for Unambiguous Life\u003c\/em\u003e (2013), and \u003cem\u003eEternal God\/Saving Time\u003c\/em\u003e (2015). He is the co-editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eHandbook of Kierkegaard\u003c\/em\u003e (with John Lippitt; 2013) and \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Theology and Modern European Thought\u003c\/em\u003e (with Nicholas Adam and Graham Ward; 2013).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39932111093875,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":103.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_1cf5a0b4-4b8f-44d9-8864-911fd50d95aa.jpg?v=1647790251","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/a-phenomenology-of-the-devout-life-a-philosophy-of-christian-life-part-i-9780198813507","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}