The Philosophical Question of Christ.

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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Christ and the Greeks: Hoping for the Un-hoped for; Prometheus: Bound between Chronos and Kairos; The twofold rule of Zeus: The meaning of the noetic hunting ground; Beyond aisthesis and maieutics: Death, Prometheus, and the philosophical idea of Christ; The paradoxical difficulty of the aisthesis-self; The poetry of Being: Forgetfulness and the higher knowledge; In defense of the forms: The pre-Christian wait; Initial remarks on the forgotten meaning of Godlikeness.

Rediscovering Prometheus and the lost image of deiformitasThe extent and meaning of the gift of techne; Techne and charakter: A brief discursus on technology; 2 The Search for a Method; Discursus on Pascal's Wager: Les jeux sont faits; The ontological argument as wager; Sign and sacrament in Cur Deus Homo; The foolishness of the fool; Probat rationibus necessariis; Another way than mythos?; Groundwork for Anselm's perfect picture: Points on predication; Knowledge as confirmation of man's debt to God; The forgotten transcendental: "Ex divina pulchitrudine esse omnium derivatur."

The invitation to the certitude of riskThe dilution of the agonic need: Jaspers and Voegelin; Man's natural desire for the naturally impossible; The un-translatable Christ: Moving beyond philosophy and theology; Christ: The un-translatable translated; The sadness of Christ: Love, responsibility, and the total risk of the rescue mission; 3 The Eros of Imago Dei: Dante and the More-than-man; Godlikeness: Knowledge as love: Th e speculative Ash Wednesday; 4 God and Man in Mutual Pre-possession: The Mystery of Self-presence; The composite unity in St Thomas Aquinas.

Existential primacy and Promethean techneChrist and the tragic wisdom of the Promethean leap; In defense of self-presence: The still point of the turning soul; The fulfillment of self-presence in the figure of Christ; Epilogue: Beyond the Commensurate: The Five Ways of Mystic Surrender; The First Tear: Doubtful Thomas; The Second Tear: The Prodigal Son; The Third Tear: The bridegroom; The Fourth Tear: The crucified one; The Fifth Tear: The Resurrected One; Bibliography; Index.

Does the figure of Christ provide philosophical reason with its ultimate philosophical challenge? What can thought as thought say about the picture of Christ in the Gospels? Gilson argues that the forgotten hermeneutic of perfection provides the key to a re-thinking of the fundamental categories of reason and faith. From a strictly philosophic perspective Gilson examines the figure of Christ in the gospels as a unique essence no longer either traceable or reducible to any contributing influences; so unique as to transcend while incorporating all comparative genera; so unique as to carr.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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