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The text traces how European modernity frames progress through affirmation of the present, systematic doubt toward inherited authority, and a drive for novelty in science, institutions, and social life. It contrasts this with the medieval religious worldview where church authority shaped education, research, politics, and metaphysical principles, showing modernity’s break as largely anti-religious and anti-clerical, and defining its aims and methods.","Christos Yannarasostmodern MetaphysicS  \nristos Yannaras has been for several decades one of the most prolific,iginal and contemporary Orthodox writers in Greece.He is perhaps  of the most significant Christian philosophers in Europe,and it isnderful to be able to welcome this sustained enterprise in makingaccessible to English-speaking audiences.”  \nRowan Williams  \nArchbishop of Canterbury  \nBne sheer energy and compass of this work make Yannaras requiredding in the assessment of postmodernity.Russell's first-rate trans-on is a milestone along the way to understanding Yannaras's placechese debates.\"  \nLaurence HemmingHeythrop College,University of London  \nYannaras's book is an important contribution to the theology/sciencedebate.It offers a respectable alternative to creationist resistance to ma-ialistic evolutionism.It shows how spiritual reality transcends thecategories of chance and necessity that materialists believe can explaineverything.It argues passionately for the priority of relationality andiprocity,the spiritual dimension through which we can discoveruod's causality and so enter into personal relation with him.  \nCHRISTOS YANNARAS is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at thePanteion University of Social and Political Sciences,Ath-ens.Born in Athens in 1935,he studied at the Universities ofAthens,Thessalonica,Bonn and Paris.He holds doctorates inphilosophy from the Sorbonne and in theology from Thessa-lonica.The author of more than twenty books,he has beentranslated into a number of languages.  \nSDISAHdYJW/KHdOSOlIHd  \nHOLY CROSS ORTHODOX PRESS  \n19.95N 524.95UK 11.95[UR C16.95  \n1885652801  \n(138807)O  \nChristos YannarasPostmodern Metaphysics  \nYannaras  \nTranslated by  \nNorman Russell  \nPostmodern MetaphysiCS  \nPOSTMODERNMETAPHYSICS  \nTranslated  \nby  \nNorman Russell  \nCONTENTS  \nOriginal Title in Greck:Meta-neoteriké meta-physiké.Published in Athens in 1993.  \nProlegomena 1  \nThe modern paradigm1  \n◎ Copyright 2004Holy Cross Orthodox PressPublished by Holy Cross Orthodox Press50 Goddard AvenueBrookline,Massachusetts 02445  \nProlegomena 2  \nThe collapse of the modern vision19  \nProlegomena 3  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced,storedin a retrieval system,or transmitted in any form or by any means—clectronic,mcchanical,photocopy,rccording,or any other—without theprior written permission of the publisher.The only exception is briefquotations in printed reviews.  \nThe lack of existential meaning in modernity 47  \nParenthesis 1  \nThe “logical place”of chance67  \nOn the coverGiorgio de Chirico(1888-1978),L'énigme de la fatalité,1914,oil painting,Emmanuel Hoffman-Stiftung/Kunstmuseum Basel,Switzerland.◎2004 Artists Rights Society(ARS),New York /SIAE,Rome.  \nParenthesis 2  \nThe “logical place”of the theory of evolution 73  \nThesis 1  \nThe postmodern challenge:a metaphysical extension of physics83  \nISBN 1-885652-80-1  \nLIBRARY OF CoNGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA  \nThesis 2  \nGiannaras,Chracstos,1935-  \nThe modal sense of the infinite and the absolute 141  \n[Meta-ncaoterikáe,meta-physikie.English]  \nPostmodern mctaphysics/Christos Yannaras;translated by NormanRussell.  \nThesis 3  \nA postmodern essay in metaphysical ontology 171  \np.cm.  \nIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.  \nISBN 1-885652-80-1(pbk.:alk.paper)  \n183  \nNotes  \n1.Postmodernism.2.Philosophy,Modern.I.Title.  \nB831.2.G53132005  \n2004022789  \n110-dc22  \nProlegomena 1  \nTHE MoDERN PARADIGM  \n# 1.Historical context\n\nEuropean historiography takes the fall of Constantinople(1453)as the starting-point of the modern period,'perhapsbecause it was then that the axis of development shifted de-cisively from the Greek East to the European West.  \nThe so-called \"Renaissance\"and the Protestant\"Reformation\"in central and western Europe were more orless still cnclosed within a medieval outlook,and may beregarded more like “mere displacements,within the systemof medieval Christendom.\"2  \nCertainly the term “modern”signals an ","cbCaieBliKSmMc8Q","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaieBliKSmMc8Q","pdf",9808981,3,1,104,"English","en",105,"# Prolegomena\n## 1. 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