Date of Award
1-1-2009
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Organizational Unit
Joint Ph.D. Program in Study of Religion
First Advisor
Sandra Dixon, Ph.D.
Second Advisor
Frank Seeburger, Ph.D.
Third Advisor
Albert Hernandez
Keywords
Hermeneutics, Imagination, Jacob Boehme, Martin Heidegger, Sophia, Western esotericism
Abstract
This dissertation is offered as a work of original scholarship in the field of Religion and Psychological Studies (RPS). Through its hermeneutic preservation of Jacob Böhme's The Way to Christ in "conversation" with selected works of Martin Heidegger, I retrieve the question of imagination's relation to religious practice, attending to potentials for world transformations disclosed through this relationship, in order to develop a new hermeneutic option for the RPS field concerning this important question. This new hermeneutic option is developed in such a way as to ensure a subversive compatibility with psychoanalytic hermeneutics—our field's koiné—while opening to certain radical possibilities of interpretation concerning imagination, desire, religious practice, and world transformations.
In the course of the dissertation's development, issues concerning the western esoteric traditions—Christian theosophy in particular—repentance, guilt, death, new birth, resignation (Gelassenheit), contemplation, and a radical encounter with Sophia are brought to the fore for consideration. In addition, this dissertation develops its hermeneutic out of the guiding orientation of a weakening ontology that opens a way for the "return of religion" in postmodern hermeneutic discourse, as articulated by Gianni Vattimo.
Publication Statement
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Rights Holder
Mark Allen Peckler
Provenance
Received from ProQuest
File Format
application/pdf
Language
en
File Size
212 p.
Recommended Citation
Peckler, Mark Allen, "Imagination, Religious Practice, and World Transformations: Sophia, Heidegger, and Jacob Bohme's The Way to Christ" (2009). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 901.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/901
Copyright date
2009
Discipline
Philosophy of Religion, Religion, Philosophy
Included in
Continental Philosophy Commons, Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion Commons