03215nam a22005175i 4500 978-3-031-66652-0 DE-He213 20251030113140.0 cr nn 008mamaa 241014s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031666520 978-3-031-66652-0 10.1007/978-3-031-66652-0 doi BL51 HRAB bicssc PHI022000 bisacsh QRAB thema Prewitt-Davis, Elijah. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 85978 The Immanence of Theology and the Absurdity of Faith [electronic resource] : Believing in the World / by Elijah Prewitt-Davis. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XIX, 154 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Radical Theologies and Philosophies, 2634-6648 Chapter 1: Introduction: The Problem has Indeed Changed -- Chapter 2: Forces of Disconnection -- Chapter 3: The Repetition of Belief -- Chapter 4: The Excess of the World -- Chapter 5: The Charge of Resistance -- Chapter 6: Conclusion: A Dream of Immanence. The constant inundation of the affect and information experienced by contemporary individuals exposes the tragic nature of the world, making nihilism an epistemologically reasonable response. To counter the threat of nihilism, Elijiah Prewitt-Davis argues that knowledge must be replaced by belief. Against the common protestant concept of belief as strictly personal and interior, he proposes believing in the world as an absurd and immanent faith in the impossible—a belief that allows one to see and feel the potentialities simmering within the world as it is. Following Gilles Deleuze call to “transform belief,” Prewitt-Davis explores how belief heightens an affective attachment to our embeddedness on the world, revealing the potentialities with which time is always pregnant. Believing in the world as it is paradoxically becomes the mode of transforming the world inasmuch as the potential for something impossibly new is always immanently present. Elijah Prewitt-Davis is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Religion Philosophy. 68553 Religion. 71588 Philosophy of Religion. 68554 Religion. 71588 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031666513 Printed edition: 9783031666537 Printed edition: 9783031666544 Radical Theologies and Philosophies, 2634-6648 85979 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66652-0 ZDB-2-REP ZDB-2-SXPR 64180 64180