God Without Being
Hors-Texte, Second Edition
344 pages
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5-1/2 x 8-1/2
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© 1995, 2012
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Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword
Translator’s Acknowledgments
Preface to the English Edition (1991)
Preface to the Second Edition (2012)
Envoi
Translator’s Acknowledgments
Preface to the English Edition (1991)
Preface to the Second Edition (2012)
Envoi
God Without Being
—1—
The Idol and the Icon
1. First Visible
2. Invisible Mirror
3. Dazzling Return
4. Conceptual Idol
5. Icon of the Invisible
6. The Face Envisages
7. Visible Mirror of the Invisible
8. The Icon in the Concept
—2—
Double Idolatry
1. The Function of the Idol
2. The Ambivalence of the Conceptual Idol
3. Metaphysics and the Idol
4. The Screen of Being
5. Note on the Divine and Related Subjects
—3—
The Crossing of Being
1. The Silence of the Idol
2. The Ontological Impediment
3. Being or Else (The Good)
4. The Indifference to Be
5. The Inessential Name Thus First
—4—
The Reverse of Vanity
1. Suspension
2. Boredom
3. Vanity of Vanities
4. As If
5. Melancholia
—5—
Of the Eucharistic Site of Theology
1. Let It Be Said
2. The Foreclosed Event
3. The Eucharistic Hermeneutic
4. Whereof We Speak
5. The Delay to Interpretation
—1—
The Idol and the Icon
1. First Visible
2. Invisible Mirror
3. Dazzling Return
4. Conceptual Idol
5. Icon of the Invisible
6. The Face Envisages
7. Visible Mirror of the Invisible
8. The Icon in the Concept
—2—
Double Idolatry
1. The Function of the Idol
2. The Ambivalence of the Conceptual Idol
3. Metaphysics and the Idol
4. The Screen of Being
5. Note on the Divine and Related Subjects
—3—
The Crossing of Being
1. The Silence of the Idol
2. The Ontological Impediment
3. Being or Else (The Good)
4. The Indifference to Be
5. The Inessential Name Thus First
—4—
The Reverse of Vanity
1. Suspension
2. Boredom
3. Vanity of Vanities
4. As If
5. Melancholia
—5—
Of the Eucharistic Site of Theology
1. Let It Be Said
2. The Foreclosed Event
3. The Eucharistic Hermeneutic
4. Whereof We Speak
5. The Delay to Interpretation
Hors-Texte
—6—
The Present and the Gift
1. One or the Other Idolatry
2. Consciousness and the Immediate
3. Metaphysical or Christic Temporality
4. The Memorial
5. Epektasis
6. From Day to Day
7. The Gift of Presence
8. The Urgency of Contemplation
—7—
The Last Rigor
1. Predication
2. Performance
3. Conversions
4. Martyrdom
—8—
Thomas Aquinas and Onto-theo-logy 199
1. The Construction of the Question
2. The Characteristics of Onto-theo-logy
3. The Object of Metaphysica
4. Esse Commune and the Analogy
5. Cause and Foundation
6. The Causa Sui
7. The Horizon and the Name of Being
8. Answer to the Question: Esse without Being
Notes
English-Language Editions Cited
Sources
Index
—6—
The Present and the Gift
1. One or the Other Idolatry
2. Consciousness and the Immediate
3. Metaphysical or Christic Temporality
4. The Memorial
5. Epektasis
6. From Day to Day
7. The Gift of Presence
8. The Urgency of Contemplation
—7—
The Last Rigor
1. Predication
2. Performance
3. Conversions
4. Martyrdom
—8—
Thomas Aquinas and Onto-theo-logy 199
1. The Construction of the Question
2. The Characteristics of Onto-theo-logy
3. The Object of Metaphysica
4. Esse Commune and the Analogy
5. Cause and Foundation
6. The Causa Sui
7. The Horizon and the Name of Being
8. Answer to the Question: Esse without Being
Notes
English-Language Editions Cited
Sources
Index
Review Quotes
Prabuddha Bharata
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