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This highly personal account of a lifetime’s spiritual and philosophical enquiry charts the author’s journey of faith through contemporary culture. Distinguishing between what she posits as the ‘universal’ and the ‘rhapsodic’ logos, Tymieniecka interrogates concepts as varied as creativity and the media, joy and suffering, and truth and ambiguity. She contemplates the possibilities and limits of communication between human beings, and outlines what she calls the ‘transnatural destiny’ of the human soul.  The book asserts that unlike theory, which unfolds a logical continuity, and unlike dialogue, which is directed sequentially upward toward intellectual conclusions, the mode of reflection of the ‘rhapsodic logos’ imposes no limits or caps upon its understanding. Instead, the ‘logoic’ flow interlaces the rhapsodic cadences of our reflections on reality, in all their innumerable fluctuations, and sifts them to mold the intimate mind/soul inwardness that we experience as faith.  The radiative meditations of this ‘rhapsodic logos’ weave their way through the entanglements of the mystery of incarnation, the constitutive archetypes, the inwardly sacred, the transnatural destiny of the soul, and finally ascend the  rhapsodic scales toward culminating faith in the Christo-Logos.

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Author:   Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   2012
Volume:   111
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.483kg
ISBN:  

9789400722569

ISBN 10:   9400722567
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   21 September 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface.- Pro-logos.- Pars I.- A period of preparation for faith the first sermon of timothy the dispossessed: the quest.- Pars II.- Glimmerings.- The second sermon of timothy the dispossessed: does god speak to the soul?.- Pars III.- The window upon the absolute.- Pars IV.- Opening the window to the absolute.- Pars V.- Retracing our steps to the cave, illuminating it.- Pars VI.- In the pursuit of truth.- Pars VII.- Embodiment: our inward drama situated within the world of life, nature, and the cosmos the third sermon of timothy:.- The mystery of incarnationpars.- Pars VIII.- The constitutive archetypes: the image of god emerging at the furthest borders of conscious dealings with our primordial condition ofcontingent existence.- Pars IX.- The inward sacredpars.- Pars X.- The transnatural destiny of the soul.-.

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