Spirit, Qi, and the multitude : a comparative theology for the democracy of creation / / Hyo-Dong Lee.

"We live in an increasingly global, interconnected, and interdependent world, in which various forms of systemic imbalance in power have given birth to a growing demand for genuine pluralism and democracy. As befits a world so interconnected, this book presents a comparative theological and phi...

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Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Comparative theology : thinking across traditions
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Physical Description:xiii, 362 p.
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Table of Contents:
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  • Preface
  • Prologue: A Meeting of Two Stories
  • Introduction: A Decolonizing Asian Theology of Spirit as a Comparative Theology of Spirit-Qi
  • 1. The Psychophysical Energy of the Way in Daoist Thought
  • 2. The Psychophysical Energy of the Great Ultimate: A Neo-Confucian Adventure of the Idea in Zhu Xi
  • 3. Creativity and a Democracy of Fellow Creatures: The Challenge of Whitehead's Radical Ontological Pluralism
  • 4. The Great Ultimate as Primordial Manyone: The Promise and Peril of Toegye's Neo-Confucian "Heterodoxy"
  • 5. From the Divine Idea to the Concrete Unity of the Spirit: Hegel's Shapes of Freedom and the Domination of Nature
  • 6. Pattern and Psychophysical Energy Are Equally Actual: The Empathetic Plurisingularity of the Great Ultimate in Nongmun's Thought
  • 7. The Chaosmos and the Great Ultimate: A Neo-Confucian Trinity in Conversation with Deleuze and Keller
  • 8. The Democracy of Numinous Spirits: The Panentheism of "Subaltern" Ultimate Energy in Donghak
  • Epilogue: The Spirit-Qi of the Multitude under the Cross of Empire
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.