The Ways of Wisdom: Towards a Global, Postsecular, Convivencia Theology
Ebook
Overview
The Ways of Wisdom answers the demand for a new kind of theology appropriate for a postsecular, global civilization, showing how to engage questions of meaning and value across as well as within traditions. Arguing that humanity is the desire to be God, The Ways of Wisdom analyzes the diverse ways in which humanity has pursued this aim, and argues for a synthesis that draws on the great spiritual traditions of the Axial Age as well as on the humanistic secular commitment to innerworldly civilizational progress and social justice. At the same time, it rejects both the technocratic god-building that it argues is the hegemonic ideal of the Saeculum in which we live and the radical immanentism that imagined that we could create a collective political subject that would make us the masters of our own destiny, proposing instead what it calls Sanctuary, a way of life centered on seeking wisdom, doing justice, and ripening Being.
"Anthony Mansueto’s The Ways of Wisdom reads the human
adventure in spiritual terms--but without abandoning the material
basis--as ‘the desire to be God,’ a project which he charts across
civilizations and which he sees as embracing the Saeculum, East and
West, as well as more traditionally religious projects. His
argument is supported by an encyclopedic knowledge of history and
philosophy and driven by personal engagement with the diverse
spiritual and civilizational projects it discusses. The result
joins existential vigor to a passionate search for the
truth."
--Francois Houtart, Professor Emeritus, the Catholic University of
Louvain; Professor, the National Institute of Higher Studies of
Quito (Ecuador)
Product Details
- Title : The Ways of Wisdom: Towards a Global, Postsecular, Convivencia Theology
- Author: Mansueto, Anthony E.
- Publisher: Pickwick Publications
- Publication Date: 2016
- ISBN: 9781498200271