INDEX

Abbott, Edwin, 10, 12

Flatland, 10, 12
Abraham, 74
absolute, the, 13, 16, 27, 55, 57, 645, 689,
734, 77, 85, 89, 96, 102, 10810, 117,
122, 1245, 1289, 151
absolute faith, 734, 84
absolutism, 21, 23, 267, 62, 100, 119
absurdity, 256, 107, 11011, 12331, 134,
152
Achilles, 116
Adam, 37
aesthetics, 6, 127, 13948
Alston, William, 15, 1719, 21, 3940,
5960
Anaximander, 125
Angst, 24, 1089, 111, 1236
Anselm of Canterbury, St, 514, 656
answerability, 5, 1315, 18, 20, 24, 267,
312, 34, 38, 40, 5960, 75, 11011,
11819, 129, 1334, 139, 150
apeiron, 125
apophatic premise, 7, 1315, 27
apophatic theology, 5, 9, 1314, 28, 524,
126
see also mysticism
Aquinas, St Thomas, 52
Aristotle, 43
art, viii, 212, 246, 121, 127, 131, 1346,
139, 1503
see also phenomenology of art
Ashton, E. B., 97
atheism, 2, 44
attention, 108, 113, 11517, 130, 145
awe, 41, 136
see also wonder

Bachelard, Gaston, 135

Bartky, Sandra, 32, 35
Beckett, Samuel, 246
Act Without Words II, 25
Being, passim
translation of Sein in Heidegger, 2930
compared with being (lowercase), 29, 42,
47, 55, 56, 169
body, human, 12, 812, 979, 106, 142,
144, 148, 154
Bouyer, Louis, 89
Boyer, Steven, 1013, 39
Brown, David, vii, 14, 134, 1534
Buber, Martin, 64, 73
Budd, Malcolm, 1412, 144
Buri, Fritz, 778

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Calder, John, 256
Casel, Odo, 810, 14
certainty, 65, 84, 116, 154
see also doubt
ciphers, 77104, 1245, 1278, 130, 133,
1512
definition, 789
religious, 12831, 1334, 139, 147, 151,
153
Clark, Timothy, 34
classical theism, 2, 45, 54
Comprehensive see Encompassing
Cooper, David, passim
Cottingham, John, 2, 5, 129, 137, 138, 151,
152
Dasein, 24, 31, 35, 56, 689, 108
Descartes, Ren (also Cartesian), 11, 1056,
138
Dewey, John, 68, 95, 115

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dialectic, 6, 57, 612, 64, 93, 1258, 1512,

154
phenomenological, 12331, 134, 151
dialectical theism, 45, 57, 59, 60, 634, 75,
125
Diamond, Cora, 534
doubt, 65, 73, 845, 107, 149, 154
see also certainty
Dufrenne, Mikel, 140, 142
Eckhart, Meister, 59
Encompassing, 77, 78, 89100, 102, 112,
125
Enlightenment, 1
Epimenides, 116
Epiphanius of Salamis, 139
epistemology, 34, 7, 1012, 1621, 58, 60,
646, 81, 90, 103, 1056, 116, 138,
149, 154
equipollence, 1067
Ereignis, 30, 35, 46, 47, 48, 59
see also Seyn
Eucharist, 6, 89, 131, 133, 14852
existentialism, 1, 40, 45, 77
experience, 3, 56, 1214, 1618, 202,
2939, 58, 623, 6870, 723, 75, 91,
98101, 10611, 11317, 119, 1237,
129, 1334, 139, 143, 148, 1534
aesthetic see phenomenology of art
see also perception
priority over logic, 989, 109, 11617
see also revelation

God, passim
existence, 13, 20, 434, 54, 56, 589,
63, 66, 79
necessary existence, 4954
necessary non-existence, 545
God (word), 6, 13, 19, 28, 3946, 54, 56,
63, 67, 703, 77, 129
Gordon-Taylor, Ben, 9
Grundoffenbarung, 73
see also absolute faith
Guiver, George, 9
Heidegger, Martin, 4, 6, 234, 2644, 469,
51, 559, 6870, 735, 89, 956, 105,
10712, 11415, 118, 1202, 124,
12730, 133, 135, 144, 1468, 150
Being and Time, 29, 69, 121
Contributions to Philosophy, 48
Identity and Difference, 41
Kehre see Heidegger, Martin, turning
turning, 2930, 469
Hepburn, Ronald, 1356
Heraclitus, 113
Hick, John, 14
Hitchens, Christopher, 85
Hlderlin, Friedrich, 31, 37
humane philosophy, viii, 5
humanism, existential, 237, 62, 69, 107,
11012, 114, 118, 124
Hume, David, 12, 4, 85
Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, 2
Husserl, Edmund, 107, 115

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Feuerbach, Ludwig, 94
FitzPatrick, Patrick, 14852
formalism (aesthetics), 1456
fourfold, 35, 49
Freud, Sigmund, 34
Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 82, 13941, 1446,
153
geometry, 1112
Gestalt, 116
gesture, 812, 129, 134, 1414, 1478,
1501, 153
Gifford, Adam see Gifford, Lord
Gifford, Lord, 4
Gifford Lectures, 34, 15

imagination, 14, 54, 109, 1256, 130, 136,

148, 154
ineffabilism, 154
ineffability, passim
definition, 7
see also mystery
ineffable, the see ineffability
inexhaustibility, 14, 62, 83, 111, 126,
13941, 143, 145, 1469, 153
isostheneia see equipollence
James, William, 5, 15, 16, 21, 27, 40, 115
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Jaspers, Karl, 6, 567, 75, 77106, 112, 120,
12330, 1334, 1512, 154
oath to the spirit of science (photograph), 96
Kant, Immanuel, 1, 4, 26, 54, 89
Kearney, Richard, 148
Kellenburger, James, 16
Kenny, Anthony, 13
Kierkegaard, Sren, 75, 120
Kripke, Saul, 17
Kukla, Andr, 15, 16, 20, 21
Langer, Suzanne, 1368
Langley, G. H., 11314
language, 56, 1920, 22, 24, 33, 368,
40, 43, 467, 50, 523, 7984, 867,
90, 924, 112, 116, 122, 129, 1334,
1424, 1467
poetic, 368, 47, 1203, 1259, 134,
139, 141, 1435, 153
religious, 5, 6, 19, 20, 22, 40, 514, 56,
5960, 86, 129, 131, 1345, 148,
1534
see also meaning, linguistic
language-games, 53, 146
Law, David, vii, 78, 79, 85
le Poidevin, Robin, 4951
logic, 2, 5, 1012, 1517, 25, 28, 44, 52,
70, 77, 85, 94, 98, 102, 106, 109, 112,
11619, 1223, 1356, 139, 141, 147,
154
priority of experience over see experience,
priority over logic
limits of see reason, limits of
modal, 4951
love, viiviii, 557
Ldeking, Karlheinz, 144, 146

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Mallarm, tienne see Mallarm, Stphane

Mallarm, Stphane, 1445
Marcel, Gabriel, 15, 43, 58, 112
Marion, Jean-Luc, 478, 557
Mason, Richard, 18
meaning, 6, 203, 256, 2930, 46, 634,
6673, 75, 7983, 90, 92, 95, 102,
10811, 114, 12331, 1345, 139,
143, 150, 152
aesthetic see phenomenology of art
linguistic, 81, 142, 145
of life, 14, 236, 40, 44, 118, 124, 128,
129, 137, 152, 154
medicine, 96, 154
psychiatric, 96
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 26, 67, 812, 90,
989, 1079, 111, 115, 118, 1425,
1478, 153
metaphor, 16, 56, 804, 878, 90, 94, 109,
116, 129, 134, 137
metaphysics, 413, 489, 62, 64, 77, 80, 86,
93, 110, 1358
miracles, 2, 61, 67, 68, 86
Moore, Adrian, 1921
Moses, 74
Mulhall, Stephen, 514
mystery, 5, 712, 14, 17, 23, 2737, 43,
456, 53, 578, 603, 112, 117, 120,
122, 138, 145, 147, 1501
theological conception of, 713, 15
see also ineffability
mysticism, 5, 78, 1516, 212, 28, 61, 74,
78, 86
see also apophatic theology
mythology, 79, 85, 88, 154

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McGilchrist, Iain, 113, 11517, 126, 130,

147, 152
MacKinnon, Donald, 22
Macquarrie, John, 14, 6, 40, 457, 49, 54,
5760, 634, 67, 75, 1034, 125, 133,
1389, 148, 153
Principles of Christian Theology, 2
magic, 85, 1367
Malcolm, Norman, 512

naturalism, 75
natural theology, 15, 1617, 456, 58, 153
see also philosophy of religion
negative theology see apophatic theology
nihilism, 110, 124
nothingness, 15, 45, 49, 57, 60, 86, 93
10711, 1245
Nothing, the see nothingness
Nozick, Robert, 111, 124
Olson, Duane, 657
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modal version, 4951

implicit in Tillich, 657, 90, 96, 112
ontological difference, 29, 31, 39, 41, 46,
489, 59
ontotheology, 40, 578, 75, 129, 135
critique of, 4155, 60, 66, 72, 77, 136
definition, 41
Orwell, George, 138
pantheism, 80
paradox, 60, 634, 66, 79, 979, 102,
11617, 1267, 130
Parmenides, 125
Pascal, Blaise, 138
perception, 17, 72, 813, 95, 989, 106,
108, 111, 140, 1423, 147
see also experience
performance, 22, 136, 140, 143, 144, 1467,
1513
phenomenality, 8891
phenomenology
existential, 36, 12, 20, 22, 24, 267,
567, 63, 6770, 75, 95, 98, 1023,
105, 10915, 11718, 12031, 134,
150, 153
transcendental, 115
of art, 13948, 150, 152
see also art
phenomenological dialectic see dialectic,
phenomenological
philosophy, passim
philosophy of religion, viii, 12, 45, 53, 59,
66, 78, 137, 153
physiognomy, 801, 90, 1289, 134, 142
Pl, Albert, 79
Plotinus, 45
poetry see language, poetic
pragmatism, 56, 40, 68, 98, 103, 107, 112,
11416, 118, 126, 152
pre-Socratic philosophy, 11617, 126
Pseudo-Denys see Pseudo-Dionysius the
Areopagite
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, 1314
Putnam, Hilary, 40, 114
Pythagoras, 32

reason, 4, 11, 1617, 603, 656, 98, 103,

105, 107, 109, 11013, 1237, 129,
134, 138
limits of, 4, 60, 66, 94, 103, 107, 110,
11223, 126, 128
relation to rationality, 11215, 1223,
128
versus passion, vii, 113, 114, 121, 122
rationality, 63, 10910, 11215, 118,
1204, 126, 128, 138
definition, 11213, 120
religious experience, passim
see also experience
see also revelation
religious symbols see symbol
revealed theology see revelation
revelation, 3, 5, 8, 11, 14, 5765, 678, 70,
75, 78, 845, 878, 12731, 153
see also religious experience
Richardson, William, 46
ritual, 68, 25, 127, 130, 1339, 145,
14854
Roquentin, 24
Russell, Bertrand, 149
Russell, John, 66

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Sartre, Jean-Paul, 246, 10711, 114, 123,

124, 125
scepticism, 1067, 14950
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 26
Schrag, Calvin, 42, 468
Schumann, Robert, 144
Schler, Werner, 73
science, 4, 86, 96, 103, 112, 136
see also medicine
Sein, 2930
see also Being, translation of Sein in
Heidegger
Seinsfrage, 29, 32
Seinsvergessenheit, 30, 33, 35
Seyn, 35
Sextus Empiricus, 106
Shakespeare, William, 37
King Lear, 140
significance see meaning
sociology, 138
Socrates, 74
Stace, Walter, 15, 16, 21

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Steiner, George, 32, 367, 42, 153
subjectobject dichotomy, 6, 212, 28, 33,
36, 39, 434, 46, 602, 6580, 823,
88106, 11115, 118, 120, 1278, 133
compared with subjectobject distinction, 68, 978, 1037, 112, 118,
1213, 128
definition, 68
subjectobject distinction, 1045, 107,
11213, 11828, 151
Suzuki, Daisetsu, 150
symbol, 16, 5961, 634, 6775, 78, 80, 84,
86, 88, 103, 128
compared with cipher, 79, 824, 87, 89,
923, 1023, 1289
Tertullian, 1, 4
theology, 1, 7, 3975, 778, 856, 1045,
126, 12930, 149, 153
critique of, 85, 154
Theseus, ship of, 116
Thomson, Iain, 41
Tillich, Paul, 6, 40, 427, 49, 545, 578,
6075, 789, 835, 87, 8990, 93, 96,
1014, 112, 1278, 154
Systematic Theology, 42
The Courage to Be, 44
Dynamics of Faith, 85
Toland, John, 911, 14
Christianity Not Mysterious, 9
Tolstoy, Leo, 1412
transcendence, 13, 1920, 26, 28, 31, 35,
43, 48, 567, 5960, 64, 703, 7797,

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1002, 104, 108, 11516, 1245, 127,

130, 133, 134, 149, 151
transparency, 22, 31, 612, 70, 73, 81, 84,
94, 101, 116, 1257, 1478, 1501
transubstantiation, 14850
Trinity, the, 88
Turner, Denys, 13, 412, 523, 126
ultimate reality see absolute, the
uncertainty see doubt
unconditioned, the see absolute, the
Valry, Paul, 109, 144
van Gogh, Vincent, 121
von Hochheim, Eckhart see Eckhart, Meister
Weil, Simone, 545
Wilde, Oscar, 75
Williams, Rowan, 545
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 21, 28, 37, 514,
119, 121, 1368, 1417, 151
Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics,
Psychology and Religious Belief, 141
Philosophical Investigations, 142
Remarks on Frazers Golden Bough,
1367
wonder, 1356
see also awe
Wynn, Mark, 5

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Yannaras, Christos, 13
Young, Julian, 2930, 42, 489, 57
Zeno of Elea, 116

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