By Robert P. Scharlemann
Scharlemann provides a christological phenomenology of the self, tracing the connections among the "I am" of the God who spoke to Moses, the "I am" of Christ, and the "I am" of self sufficient self-identification. How, he asks, can the self that spontaneously responds to Jesus' "Follow me!" be in comparison with the standard, self reliant self? what's the nature of "following" at the a part of those that solution the summons of 1 whose identify is "I am"? Pursuing those questions, Scharlemann develops a christological phenomenology of the self—an account during which following potential now not the expression of the self in motion or mirrored image yet particularly self-discovery in one other person.
With a deep feel of either tradition and philosophy, Scharlemann distinguishes the kinds of cause inquisitive about "following" from these in ethics, aesthetics, and different modes of non secular philosophic suggestion. His penetrating readings of 19th- and twentieth-century German theological and philosophical traditions supply an creation to lesser-known thinkers comparable to Hermann and Picht in addition to a profound critique of significant figures akin to Descartes, Heidegger, Fichte, and Kant.
Finally Scharlemann outlines a application for a extra systematic and rounded presentation of what Christian doctrine could suggest within the modern global. His paintings can be of curiosity to scholars of theology and philosophy alike.
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