Philosophy and Incarnation
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444). This special issue belongs to the section "Religions and Humanities/Philosophies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2024) | Viewed by 10861
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Philosophers and religious thinkers address similar questions: the origins of creation, the nature of the physical world and of humankind, the ground and scope of ethics, and the problem of evil and physical, mental and emotional suffering, to name a few. Currently, global realities of political and social strife, environmental catastrophe, and psychological and spiritual alienation bring special urgency to reflection on these questions.
The purpose of this volume is to study how we understand our existence and place in the physical world through shared philosophical and theological reflection. This research draws from the long history, as well the current cases, of reflection on these questions. The reflection may be either theoretical, in how the physical, human, or divine world is revealed and understood, or practical, in the ways the spiritual and ethical lives of individuals and societies may be ordered and liberated.
The topic of this shared reflection in the journal Religions will be Philosophy and Incarnation. Philosophers have a keen interest in the physical world of nature and how mental and the bodily interact. Religions do too: they consider specifically how an infinite divinity interacts intimately with finite embodied humanity. This area of shared research has been also termed “Incarnational Humanism” or “Philosophy and Embodiment.”
The research in this Special Issue will supplement the existing literature on this question by either presenting original analyses of the literature—whether the works refer to works of ancient, medieval, or modern philosophers or theologians—or indicating how the intersection of philosophy and incarnation is uniquely positioned to form incisive and fruitful responses to these questions.
Prof. Dr. James Swindal
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- philosophical theology
- metaphysics
- phenomenology
- incarnation
- environmental ethics
- embodiment