Title:
Badiou and theology / Frederiek Depoortere.
Philosophy and theology
Philosophy and theology (London, England)
Main Entry:
Depoortere, Frederiek.
Publisher:
T & T Clark,
Publication Date:
c2009.
Publication Place:
London ; New York :
ISBN:
9780567032621 (pbk.)
Subject:
Philosophical theology.
Badiou, Alain.
Badiou, Alain -- Religion.
Series:
Philosophy and theology
Philosophy and theology (London, England)
Contents:
Introduction : Alain Badiou, theology and the political -- 1. Christianity and the modern passion for the new -- 2. The theological promise of Alain Badiou -- 3. The threefold 'death' of God : Badiou's challenge to theology -- 4. Aim and scope of the present volume -- Faith and the existence of God -- 1. Religion and faith : terminological clarifications -- 2. The existence of God revisited -- Badiou on being -- 1. The mathematical turn -- 2. Ontology : theory of the pure multiple -- 3. Ontology : theory of the void -- 4. The actual infinite -- 5. In conclusion -- First steps towards a future theological evaluation of Badiou's ontology -- 1. Aquinas on God's infinity and unity -- 2. Cantor on Aquinas, Origen and Augustine on the mathematical infinite -- 3. Cantor on the absolute -- 4. God's infinity and unity revisited in the context of set theory.
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