Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Part One:IDENTITY, THEOLOGY, FAITH; ONE Theology and the Obsession with Identity; TWO Religion, Faith, and the Human Future; THREE In What Sense is Faith Rational? The Case ofBernard Lonergan; FOUR Divine Elbow Room; FIVE Divine Impotence; Part Two:ALTERITY, METHOD, TOPOLOGY; SIX The Levinasian Psychism and its "Others"; SEVEN Zange and Sorge: Models of "Concern" inComparative Philosophy of Religion; EIGHT Enecstasis: A Disposition for our Times?; Part Three:RELIGION, GLOBALITY, RELATIONALITY.
NINE Can We Continue to Use the Word "Religion" withImpunity?TEN On Relations without Relations: Religion, Literature, and Psychoanalysis in Julia Kristeva's Theory; ELEVEN Doing Philosophy of Religion as Glocal Losers; TWELVE Deictics: The Other as Quest; THIRTEEN Owing Life: Surviving Your Father; WRITINGS BY MAURICE BOUTIN; WORKS CITED; ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX.
Philosophy of religion is a highly diversified field. An apt description of it is "zoo." It conjures imagery of a species-wide cacophony of sights and sounds. While some bemoan what this description implies, contributors to this volume appreciate it. There is no reason why a zoo should intimate a den of confusion rather than an important condition of emergence and novelty. "Polyphonic" is the catchall term to capture this sentiment. It signals a way of thinking that resists the desire to siphon insight into manageable packets of information in the name of historicality and finitude. A polyphon
