Theology after Postmodernity
Divining the Void--A Lacanian Reading of Thomas Aquinas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23211893 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tina Beattie (0000-0002-4747-5754, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Theology After Postmodernity Divining The Void A Lacanian Reading Of Thomas Aquinas (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199566075.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4206661973 |
| ISBN | 9780199566075 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
This is the first book published in English to offer a Lacanian feminist reading of Thomas Aquinas. Focusing on the centrality of desire and embodiment in Thomas’s theology and Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory, it traces an overgrown path through changing configurations of God, gender, and nature from their Aristotelian formation in the medieval universities to their fragmentation in the collapse of modernity’s visions and values. Theology after Postmodernity offers a penetrating critique of Thomas’s Aristotelianism, while excavating the neglected mystical dimensions of his theology. In engagement with Lacan, it explores the ways in which the God of pre-modern Catholicism remains an unconscious but potent influence in the shaping of the modern soul, and it asks what transformations might be needed in order to bring about a Thomism for our times. Probing beneath the surface of Thomas’s Summa Theologiae and other writings, and drawing on the writings of Catherine of Siena as well as Thomas, it brings to light the Other of Thomas’s One God—an ephemeral maternal Trinity who shimmers into view when Thomas’s Aristotelian onto-theology is suspended to allow a more incarnational and relational theology to emerge. The book argues that Lacan makes possible a renewed Thomism in the form of a rich mystical theology of creation, incarnation, and redemption. This mystical Thomism offers a theological vision that addresses some of the most urgent and far-reaching challenges which postmodernity poses to Christian doctrine and practice, with a particular focus on questions of God, grace, nature, and gender.
Apocalypticism · Doctrine · Epistemology · Incarnation · Modernity · Mysticism · Postmodernity · Soul · Theology · Thomism · Vision · Medieval Philosophy and Theology · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.55 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |