Theology After Postmodernity: Divining the Void—a Lacanian Reading of Thomas Aquinas

New York, NY: Oxford University Press (2013)
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Engaging the theology of Thomas Aquinas with the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan, Tina Beattie shows how Thomism exerted a formative influence on Lacan, and how a Lacanian approach can bring new insights to Thomas's theology. Lacan makes possible a renewed Thomism which offers a rich theology of creation, incarnation, and redemption

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B765.T54.B353 2013

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9780199566075   0199566070   0198745028   9780198745020
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Greek Philosophy, Theology, and Gender

Part II explores Greek philosophical influences on the theology of Thomas Aquinas, using a Lacanian perspective to unearth hidden tensions and contradictions that arise in the attempt to create a synthesis between Christian theology and Platonic and Aristotle concepts of being, with a part... see more

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