The Touch of Transcendence: A Postcolonial Theology of God
by Rivera, MayraFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-07-13
Publisher(s): Presbyterian Pub Corp
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Summary
How far away is God? How different is God from human beings? This is the theological question of transcendence, and theology has long struggled to find answers that affirm a human relationship with God. In this provocative new work, Mayra Rivera's answer is that God is not within human grasp but is always within human touch. With a strikingly relevant concept of God as transcendent within--transcendence different from the ideas of God as far away, as outside human life and experience, or as above the human plane of existence--Rivera concentrates on transcendence as a relationship and uses it to describe how humans can touch God. In doing so, she engages a number of theological movements, including liberation theology, Radical Orthodoxy, feminism, and postcolonialism.
Author Biography
Mayra Rivera is Assistant Professor of Theology at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Wholly Other | p. 4 |
| Transcendence in the Western Imaginary | p. 5 |
| A Call from Beyond | p. 10 |
| Radical Transcendence? | p. 17 |
| The Problem of the Demise of Transcendence | p. 19 |
| Participation | p. 22 |
| Beyond | p. 25 |
| Causality | p. 26 |
| The One and the Many | p. 28 |
| Affinity and Difference | p. 33 |
| The Apophatic Reserve of Language-and Creatures | p. 37 |
| Intracosmic Transcendence: Liberation Theology | p. 39 |
| Modernity and Postmodernity in Liberation Theology | p. 40 |
| Transcendence in History: Ignacio Ellacuria | p. 41 |
| Relating in God | p. 44 |
| Knowing in History | p. 47 |
| The Debate with Radical Orthodoxy | p. 49 |
| God-Talk in History | p. 51 |
| Intracosmic Transcendence | p. 53 |
| Transcendence in the Face of the Other | p. 55 |
| From Totality to Transcendence: Emmanuel Levinas | p. 56 |
| Transcendence | p. 57 |
| God and the Other | p. 59 |
| The Other and the Self | p. 61 |
| Transcendence, Infinity, and Exteriority | p. 62 |
| Irreversibility and Asymmetry in Relation to the Other | p. 64 |
| From Modernity to Transmodernity: Enrique Dussel | p. 66 |
| Europe and the Other | p. 67 |
| Transcendence and Liberation | p. 69 |
| Exteriority | p. 71 |
| Totality, the Other, and the Critic | p. 73 |
| Transcendence In-Between: U.S. Hispanic Theology | p. 77 |
| Openings for Transcendence as Infinition | p. 81 |
| Transcendence in the Flesh of the Other | p. 83 |
| Disembodied Transcendences | p. 84 |
| Levinas's Eros | p. 85 |
| In the Beginning: Touch | p. 88 |
| Transcendence as Sexual Difference | p. 90 |
| Woman, Man, and the Third | p. 91 |
| A Cosmic Place | p. 92 |
| The Social Body | p. 94 |
| Transcendence of Planetary Creatures | p. 99 |
| Encounters in (Postcolonial) History | p. 101 |
| The Social Production of Otherness: Worlding and Foreclosure | p. 104 |
| The Wholly Other and Transcendence | p. 109 |
| Transcendence of the Other | p. 115 |
| Preparing to Encounter the (Wholly) Other | p. 117 |
| Transcendent Planetarity | p. 122 |
| Transcendence between Creatures | p. 125 |
| The Touch of Transcendence | p. 127 |
| Relational Transcendence | p. 129 |
| Creation: The Place of Transcendence | p. 130 |
| Divine Touch | p. 135 |
| The Glory of God | p. 138 |
| Notes | p. 141 |
| Bibliography | p. 173 |
| Index | p. 183 |
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