VOLUME FOUR
Agape and Bhakti with Bataille and Mark at Loyola and St. Francis
The Mysticism of Reconciliation
David L. Goicoechea
Postmodern Ethics Series 9
Agape and Bhakti with Bataille and Mark at Loyola and St. Francis
The Mysticism of Reconciliation
Postmodern Ethics 9
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Names: Goicoechea, David L.
Title: Agape and Bhakti with Bataille and Mark at Loyola and St. Francis : The Mysticism of Reconciliation / David L. Goicoechea.
Description: Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2016 | Series: Postmodern Ethics 9 | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: isbn 9781532600623 (paperback) | isbn 9781532600647 (hardcover) | isbn 9781532600630 (ebook)
Subjects: LSCH: Bhakti. | Hinduism. | Bataille, Georges, 1897–1962. | Bible. Mark—Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Classification: BL1214.32.B53 G55 2016 (print) | BL1214.32.B53 (ebook)
Manufactured in the U.S.A. 10/26/16
Postmodern Ethics Series
Postmodernism and deconstruction are usually associated with a destruction of ethical values. The volumes in the Postmodern Ethics series demonstrate that such views are mistaken because they ignore the religious element that is at the heart of existential-postmodern philosophy. This series aims to provide a space for thinking about questions of ethics in our times. When many voices are speaking together from unlimited perspectives within the postmodern labyrinth, what sort of ethics can there be for those who believe there is a way through the dark night of technology and nihilism beyond exclusively humanistic offerings? The series invites any careful exploration of the postmodern and the ethical.
Series Editors:
Marko Zlomislić (Conestoga College)
David Goicoechea (Brock University)
Other Volumes in the Series:
Cross and Khôra: Deconstruction and Christianity in the Work of John D. Caputo edited by Neal DeRoo and Marko Zlomislić
Agape and Personhood with Kierkegaard, Mother, and Paul (A Logic of Reconciliation from the Shamans to Today) by David Goicoechea
The Poverty of Radical Orthodoxy edited by Lisa Isherwood and Marko Zlomislić
Theologies of Liberation in Palestine: Contextual, Indigenous and Postcolonial Perspectives edited by Nur Masalha and Lisa Isherwood
Agape and the Four Loves with Nietszche, Father, and Q (A Physiology of Reconciliation from the Greeks to Today) by David Goicoechea
Fundamentalism and Gender: Scripture—Body—Community edited by Ulrike Auga, Christina von Braun, Claudia Bruns, and Jana Husmann
Agape and Hesed-Ahava with Levinas-Derrida and Matthew at Mt. Angel and St. Thomas (A Doxology of Reconciliation)
Future Volumes:
Within the Postmodern Ethics Series, David Goicoechea is producing “Millennial Meditations on 2000 Years of Christian Love: A Postmodern Summa—Agape as Reconciliation,” of which the present volume is the fourth of nine.
V Agape and Karuna with Foucault and Luke, at Brock Philosophy Department (A Therapeutology of Reconciliation based on Buddhist No-Self from Buddha to Francis)
VI Agape and Rahim with Deleuze, Brock Philosophy Society, and John (An Atheology of Reconciliation based on Islamic Sharia from Muhammad to Luther)
VII Agape and Zen with Kristeva, Wilhelmina, and Catholic School (A Semiology of Reconciliation based on Japanese No-Drama from Nishida to John XXIII)
VIII Agape and Jen with Cixous, Carolyn, and Pauline School (A Phenomenology of Reconciliation based on the Confucianist Family from Tu Wei-Ming to John Paul II)
IX Agape and Tao with Irigaray, Johanna, and the Johannine School (An Eschatology of Reconciliation based on Taoist Gendering from Moeller to Benedict XVI)
Acknowledgments
In getting out this fourth volume I once again owe a debt of gratitude to my wife, Dr. Johanna M. Tito, for helping me in innumerable ways.
Detailed Line of Argument
Part One: The Love of Wisdom
I In Jesuit Spirituality
I,1 From Benedictines and Sulpicians to Jesuits and Franciscans
I,1.1 Leaving the Seminary Fifty Years Ago
I,1.2 Why I Must Tell the Story of the Leaving in Detail
I,1.3 For It Had to Do with a Sublimated Eros
I,1.4 Which Platonically can Contribute to Agape
I,1.5 And which Makes the Love of Wisdom so Intriguing
I,1.6 So that I was Inspired to Learn from the Jesuits
I.1.7 And to Teach with the Franciscan Sisters
I,1.8 And to learn Franciscan Spirituality from Them
I,1.9 While being Loved by So Many Female Students
I,2 The Seminarian Meets a Young Lady
I,2.1 Anxiety
I,2.2 Security
I,2.3 Enchantment
I,2.4 Awe
I,2.5 Guilt
I,2.6 Joy
I,2.7 Sorrow
I,2.8 Glory
I,2.9 Out of Boredom
I,3 And Discovers the Sublimation of Celibacy
I,3.1 Apprehension
I,3.2 Generosity
I,3.3 Ambiguity
I,3.4 Eros
I,3.5 Innocence
I.3.6 Presence
I,3.7 Humility
I,3.8 Reverence
I,3.9 Gentleness
II In Mark’s Gospel
II.1 The Father’s Beloved Son Loves Altruistically
II.1.1 And He is Called the Agapetos
II.1.2 And John the Baptist is Not Worthy of this Jesus
II.1.3