Friendship and Ways to Truth

David B. Burrell

Description

The death of a friend is a source of pain and grief for anyone. For David B. Burrell, it is also a source of reflection on the role of friendship in our ongoing pursuit of truth. In this small but penetrating book, Burrell offers five essays that explore friendship as the bond that links us to the religious traditions we embrace in our search for truth. Known for his many and lasting contributions to philosophical theology, Burrell here makes a definitive statement for that field while also continuing the cross-cultural discussion among Christians, Muslims, and Jews.

Burrell considers how friendship can be constitutive of the spiritual exercises one employs to seek truth, and he examines the influences on his thinking of Bernard Lonergan, Stanley Hauerwas, and Augustine to show how friends can open our minds and hearts to interfaith dialogue and the mutual illumination it offers. He also explores cross-cultural understanding through a comparison of the teaching of Aquinas with that of Islam's al-Ghazali, suggesting that their complementary perspectives can fruitfully expand our view of friendship to include our relationship with God. In the end, he offers a model of friendship as a relationship which gives us the courage to maintain our philosophical pursuits and which helps us to persevere in the face of the radical unknowing which characterizes philosophical theology.

Just as Burrell learns from death that friendship cannot end, he celebrates how each of us can present to another the face of the good as we journey together through life. And just as our journey toward the truth continues forever, he enables us to see that the gift of friendship is not limited to our earthly existence.

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Éthique et morale
• Comparative Religion
• Moral Philosophy
• PHILOSOPHY
• Philosophie et théologie
• Theosophy
• Judaism
• Ethics
• Christianity
• Islam

Informations

• Publié par: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date de parution: 13 octobre 2000
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780268048761
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 13 Mo

Extrait

University of Notre Dame Press Copyright ©2000 by University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 All Rights Reserved www.undpressnd.edu Published in the United States of America

This ebook has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this book do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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