Name: Against Innocence
Price: 18.58 GBP
Availability: InStock
Author: Andrew Shanks
ISBN: 9780334041368

Gillian Rose (19471995) was a highly original, enigmatic and pugnacious thinker, whose work draws together Continental philosophy, sociology, modern / post-modern Jewish and Christian reflection on ethics. She was also, famously, a convert to Christianity, baptised into the Church of England on her deathbed, from Judaism. She has been a major influence on many contemporary thinkers, not least on the thought of the Archbishop Rowan Williams. Her writings are teasingly poetic, often forbiddingly difficult, and yet at the same time vividly accessible, at any rate through her widely praised memoir, Loves Work.

Here, a Church of England priest writes about Roses thought as it relates to the future of the Church she eventually joined. A significant philosopher of this century, they believe her thinking implicitly points towards a new form of Christian self-understanding.

This captivatingly well written book is the first major study of Gillian Roses thought from a theological point of view. It aims to make the work of this highly complex thinker accessible to a wider readership.

A deathbed baptism
Against holocaust piety
The question of law
Thinking the absolute
Against modern Gnosticism
The threefold moral of the disaster
Against holy middles in general
Unwrapping the gift

Andrew Shanks is the Canon Theologian of Manchester Cathedral.

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