550:(University of Notre Dame Press, âThresholds in Philosophy and Theology,â ed. Jeffrey Bloechl and Kevin Hart, 2015). The latter book expounds a basic method under the rubrics of reflective judgment and conventional truth. Then it visits seven loci that challenge theological thinking today: modernist literature, metaphysics and its overcoming, Scripture, religious experience, negative theology, religious pluralism, and dogma. In each case classical paradigms are unsettled and a more modest and flexible path of reflection and articulation is limned.
507:. This book sketches a strategy for rereading Christian texts in a counter-metaphysical key. Though convinced of the truth and validity of classical Christian metaphysical theology, OâLeary is also convinced of the need to âstep backâ behind it to the âmatter itself,â that is, to the phenomenality of the biblical events in the horizons of contemporary understanding. Drawing on Heidegger to renew the old questions of
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These volumes on fundamental theology advance a view of doctrinal language that is increasingly influenced by the
Buddhist dyad of conventional and ultimate truth. The basic thesis is that religious traditions can function as vehicles of ultimacy, but that to do so authentically and effectively they
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Joseph OâLeary is editorial assistant to The Japan
Mission Journal, which often publishes articles of interreligious interest, and is a regular participant in the Tokyo Buddhist Discussion Group. He frequently attends academic conferences, including the quadrennial Origenianum and Gregory of Nyssa
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Further fruits of OâLeary's engagement with
Buddhist philosophy are his Ătienne Gilson lectures at the Institut Catholique de Paris, 2011 (published as Philosophie occidentale et concepts bouddhistes, PUF, 2011) and his forthcoming commentary on the Vimalakirti Sutra for the collection âChristian
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became key theoretical references. In addition to
English Literature he taught courses on European culture and on the Bible as literature. He remains concerned with the theological significance of modernist literature and is currently working on a book on Joyce from this perspective.
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about the patristic synthesis of the Bible and Greek thought, he advocates a deconstructive method of reading patristic texts that brings out the tensions and flaws in the Athens-Jerusalem syntheses as they show up in the texture of the writing of
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need to fully recognize their conventional status as linguistic constructions embedded in history. Warding off nominalism and relativism, OâLeary argues against
Derrida and Western interpreters of
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