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0268201579 epub Godsends is William Desmonds newest addition to his masterwork on the borderlines between philosophy and theology. For many years, William Desmond has been patiently constructing a philosophical projectreplete with its own terminology, idiom, grammar, dialectic, and its metaxological transformationin an attempt to reopen certain boundaries: between metaphysics and phenomenology, between philosophy of religion and philosophical theology, between the apocalyptic and the speculative, and between religious passion and systematic reasoning. In Godsends, Desmonds newest addition to his ambitious masterwork, he presents an original reflection on what he calls the companioning of philosophy and religion. Throughout the book, he follows an itinerary that has something of an Augustinian likeness: from the exterior to the interior, from the inferior to the superior. The stations along the way include a grappling with the default atheism prevalent in contemporary intellectual culture an exploration of the middle space, the metaxu between the finite and the infinite a dwelling with solitudes as thresholds between selving and the sacred a meditation on idiot wisdom and transcendence in an East-West perspective an exploration of the different stresses in the mysticisms of Aurobindo and the Read more