Towards an Ecumenical Metaphysics, Volume II

About the Book Is there a connection between the systemic crisis of globalization and the current “winter” of the ecumenical movement? Conversely, can radical quests for meaning (sometimes transformed into fundamentalist movements) constitute the basis for a spiritual, political, and intellectual renewal of contemporary societies, if understood through an ecumenical metaphysics?      In this second volume of Towards an Ecumenical Metaphysics, Antoine Arjakovsky responds to these questions with the help of a historical narrative centered on the history of Christian consciousness. The paradigm of the “ecumenic age” imagined by Eric Voegelin sees human consciousness as the most appropriate place to find meaning in the history of the world. Voegelin particularly underlined the role played by Christian faith in grasping the human consciousness of finitude and orienting it towards divine-humanity. This eschatological conception of history has spread well beyond its purely Judaeo-Christian c