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Unfinished God

The Speculative Philosophical Theology of Ray L. Hart
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Ray L. Hart is one of the most radical and creative theologians active in contemporary speculative philosophical theology. Breaking on the scene with his immensely influential Unfinished Man in 1968, he published his magnum opus, God Being Nothing, in 2015. This volume advances critical consideration of... Read More
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Eighteen essays by a team of distinguished philosophers and theologians examine and develop Ray L. Hart's key contributions to theology.

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Ray L. Hart is one of the most radical and creative theologians active in contemporary speculative philosophical theology. Breaking on the scene with his immensely influential Unfinished Man in 1968, he published his magnum opus, God Being Nothing, in 2015.

This volume advances critical consideration of Hart's theological thought. The nature of time, the meaning of personhood, the being of God, and the role of the imagination in Hart's work are discussed with clarity and erudition. Hart's deep rootedness in modern speculative theology, from Boehme to Schelling, comes to the fore. The wide scope and profound depth of Hart's thought have never been more evident.

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    Ray L. Hart is one of the most radical and creative theologians active in contemporary speculative philosophical theology. Breaking on the scene with his immensely influential Unfinished Man in 1968, he published his magnum opus, God Being Nothing, in 2015. This volume advances critical consideration of Hart's theological thought. The nature of time, the meaning of personhood, the being of...
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ISBN: 9781399532228

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 May 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Edinburgh University Press

Contributors:

  • Edited by Alina N Feld
  • Edited by Sean J. McGrath

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 368

About the Author

Alina N. Feld is Adjunct Associate Professor at the City University of New York and the author of Melancholy and the Otherness of God (Lexington Books, 2011), book chapters, and articles in philosophical theology. She received her MA in comparative literature from Stony Brook University and her PhD in theology from Boston University where she studied with Ray L. Hart. Her recent publications include: β€˜Transparency of the Good’, in D. G. Leahy and the Thinking Now Occurring (SUNY Press, 2021), β€˜Melancholia: Passing Through and Beyond’, in The Philosophy of Julia Kristeva (Open Court Publishing, 2020), β€˜Thinking the Absolute Edge between Altizer and Leahy’ (Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 19, no. 1, 2020), β€˜Hinduism and Eastern Christianity’, in Palgrave Handbook for Radical Theology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), β€˜Van Gogh’s Dark Illuminations: The End of Art or the Art of the End’, in Van Gogh among the Philosophers: Painting, Thinking, Being (Lexington Books, 2017). Sean J. McGrath is Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Memorial University of Newfoundland and a Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of The Philosophical Foundations of the Late Schelling: The Turn to the Positive (EUP, 2021), Thinking Nature. An Essay in Negative Ecology (EUP, 2019), The Dark Ground of Spirit: Schelling and the Unconscious(Routledge, 2012), Heidegger. A Very Critical Introduction (William B. Eerdmans, 2008) and The Early Heidegger and Medieval Philosophy (Catholic University of America Press, 2006). He is editor of The Palgrave Macmillan Handbook to Schelling (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2020), Rethinking German Idealism (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016) and A Companion to Heidegger’s Phenomenology of Religious Life (Rodopi, 2010).

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