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One of the urgent tasks of modern philosophy is to find a path between the rationalism of the Enlightenment and the relativism of postmodernism. Rationalism alone cannot suffice to solve today's problems, but neither can we dispense with reasonable critique. The task is to find ways to broaden the scope of rational thought without losing its critical power. The first part of this volume explores the ideas of Enlightenment philosophers and shows nuances often absent from the common view of the Enlightenment. The second part deals with some of the modern heirs of Enlightenment, such as Durkheim, Habermas, and Derrida. In the third part this volume looks at alternatives to Enlightenment thought in West European, Russian and Buddhist philosophy. Part four provides, over against the Enlightenment, a new starting point for the philosophy of religion in thinking about human beings, God, and the description of phenomena.

Preliminary Material -- Foreword /W.L. van der Merwe and Wessel Stoker -- Culture and Transcendence: A Typology /Wessel Stoker -- The Death-Defying Leap from Nihilism to Transcendence: F.H. Jacobi's Idea of Transcendence /Peter Jonkers -- Radical Immanence: An Anomaly in the History of Ideas /Danie Goosen -- The Concept of Transcendence in Charles Taylor's Later Work /Guido Vanheeswijck -- Humanism and Transcendence /Annemie Halsema -- Richard Rorty on Transcendence /Ronald A. Kuipers -- Early Critical Theory and Habermas on Transcendence /Pieter Duvenage -- Living Death: The Logic of Self-Foundation and the Problem of Transcendence in Nancy's Deconstruction of Christianity /Laurens ten Kate -- Jean-Luc Marion and the Transcendence par Excellence: Love /Joeri Schrijvers -- Everyday Life as Divine Practice: Modernity and Transcendence in Michel de Certeau /Inigo Bocken -- Jean-Yves Lacoste: The Experience of Transcendence /Kenneth Jason Wardley -- Transcendence, Self-Transcendence, and Aesthetics /Svein Aage Christoffersen -- Gianni Vattimo: Transcendence and (Postmetaphysical) Utopia /S.W.P. Engelbrecht and W.L. van der Merwe -- Intimations of Transcendence: Praise and Compassion /Sallie McFague -- Religious Secularity and the Eclipse of the Real /Mark C. Taylor -- Transcendence in Ingmar Bergman's Winter Light (1962): A Theological Analysis /Martien E. Brinkman -- Against the Use of the Essentialist Divine Hierarchy Theory of Religion in Political Theory /Govert Buijs -- The World as the "Beyond" in Politics /Vasti Roodt -- A Political Theology of an Absent God /Marin Terpstra -- Splitting Transcendence and Dividing Humankind: A Case of Secularization /Theo W.A. de Wit -- Communities of Oppression and the Recovery of the Sacred Community /David Jasper -- The Transcendence of a Meaningful Life: The Portrayal of the Contemporary Self in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest /Allard den Dulk -- The Ethics of Transcendence: C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials /Henry Jansen -- Moments of Transcendence in A.I.: The Moving Image and the Power of the Human Imagination /Heidi de Mare -- "Beyond" Immanence and Transcendence: Reflections in the Mirror of Andrei Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev and Solaris /Sylvain De Bleeckere -- Some Time for Timelessness: Performance Time of Works by Messiaen, Sorabji, and Ten Holt /Oane Reitsma -- Vicissitudes of Transcendence /W.L. van der Merwe -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- Contributors to this Volume.

Preliminary Material -- Introductory Essay: Theology of Culture, Secularity, and Plurality /Wessel Stoker -- The Background and Nature of the Deep Changes in the Religious Realities in Modern Europe /André Droogers -- The Concept of Culture in Abraham Kuyper, Herman Bavinck, and Karl Barth /Cornelis van der Kooi -- The Role of Faith in Science and in Religion /Keith Ward -- Christian Faith and Reason: A Hermeneutical Approach /Edwin Koster -- Amor Mundi in a (Post)Liberal Era: The Relevance of an Arendtian Theme for Christian Self-Understanding Today /Ronald A. Kuipers -- Equality, Difference, and Justice /Ton van Prooijen -- Business Ethics and Intrinsic Motivation in a Pluralist World /Connie Aarsbergen -- Renewal of Civilization: Toward Justice and Peace /Henk E.S. Woldring -- Populism: A Blessing in Disguise for Democracy? /Govert J. Buijs -- Poverty, Oppression, and Christian Faith /Jerald D. Gort -- The Public Role of Churches in Present Democratic South Africa /Etienne de Villiers -- Imagination and Art in the Christian Faith: On Imagination and Art in the Church /Desiree Berendsen -- Language, Literature, and Transcendence: The Contribution of F.R. Leavis /Henry Jansen -- Readiness and Timing: The Early Modern Virtues of Hamlet's Providential Christianity /Lourens Minnema -- Indigenous Spirituality and Sustainable Development: A Critical Appraisal of African Renaissance Rhetoric /Frans Wijsen -- African Philosophy, Contextualisation, Multiculturalism /W.L. van der Merwe -- Untouchables, Christians, and Hindus: How the Sacred World Order is Preserved and Renounced /Victor van Bijlert -- Contemporary Christian-Hindu Relations in Britain and the Netherlands /Jan Peter Schouten -- Superseded, Obstructive, or Crucial?: Christian Views of Judaism and its Sacred Texts /Alberdina Houtman -- Recent Developments in Christian-Jewish Dialogue /Simon Schoon -- Sympathy and Empathy: The Compassionate Bodhisattva and the Love of Christ /John D'Arcy May -- Christian and Buddhist Spiritualities: Their Differences and Complementarities /Christa Anbeek -- Present-Day Europe and Islam in Encounter: Emerging European Islam and its Dialogue Partners /Gé Speelman -- The Council of Churches in the Netherlands and its Encounter with Islam /Alle G. Hoekema -- Proximity and Distance China and the Christian West: An Essay in Intercultural Philosophy /Sander Griffioen -- Christian Views of the New Religiosities of the Western World /Reender Kranenborg -- Recent Ecclesiological Developments in the World Council of Churches: Continuity or Discontinuity? /Conrad J. Wethmar -- Conversion in the Ecumenical Debate: Great Joy or Great Discomfort? /Jan van Butselaar -- Confessio and Traditio: A Reformed Approach in Dialogue with the Lutheran Tradition /Michael Weinrich -- Christianity and Culture: WARC at the Millennium /George Newlands -- Intercultural Theology as the Integration of Ecumenism and Missiology: The Example of Current Latin American Christology /Martien E. Brinkman -- God Has No Favourites: Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue The Unity of God's Creation /Anton Houtepen -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names -- Contributors.