Frederick Douglass and the Philosophy of Religion

<P>Frederick Douglass and the Philosophy of Religion: An Interpretation of Narrative Art and the Political addresses Douglass’s narrative method and the reformed epistemology of analytic theism within the context of Incarnational theology. Timothy J. Golden argues that in this context Douglass’s use of narrative maintains a robust moral social and political engagement—and thus a closer connection to an authentic Christian theology—in a way that analytic theism does not. To show this contrast Golden presents existential and phenomenological interpretations of Douglass reading him alongside Kierkegaard Kafka and Levinas. Golden concludes the book with reflection on how Douglass’s Incarnational theology connects to his future philosophical and theological work which understands consciousness (subjectivity) as saturated in time understood as history. Golden argues that the resulting view of consciousness helps to overcome abstraction in a variety of philosophical subfields including jurisprudence and gender studies.</P>