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bk128912n77	Andrew L. Prevot	Thinking Prayer: Doxology, Spirituality, and the Crises of Modernity	2012		.txt	text/plain	361	7	8	It includes a critical analysis of Martin Heidegger's somewhat doxological effort to overcome metaphysics in dialogue with Friedrich Hölderlin; an appreciative assessment of Hans Urs von Balthasar's form of analogical, aesthetic, and dramatic doxology, especially as crystallized by his reading of Charles Péguy; an account of the limitations of Jacques Derrida's and John Caputo's prayers of apophatic deconstruction; a fresh take on the 'theological turn' of French phenomenology, as represented by Jean-Luc Marion, Jean-Yves Lacoste, and Jean-Louis Chretien; a new interpretation of Johann Baptist Metz, which clarifies the prayerful character of his political theology (in contradistinction to those of Carl Schmitt and the Frankfurt School) and situates his remembrance of Auschwitz in relation to Paul Celan and Nelly Sachs; and an examination of the various doxological possibilities of Latin American liberation theology, including not only the problematic cases of Enrique Dussel and Juan-Luis Segundo, but also the more adequate proposals of Gustavo Gutiérrez, Leonardo Boff, and Ignacio Ellacuría. The concern is not only to resist processes of secularization that imply a loss of prayer but also to consider how a prayerful way of thinking (theology) and living (spirituality) enables one to overcome the most dangerous aspects of modern metaphysics and to counteract various structures of modern violence associated with economic injustice and identity-based exclusion.	cache/bk128912n77.txt	txt/bk128912n77.txt