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Friendship as Sacred Knowing Friendship as Sacred Knowing Overcoming Isolation z SAMUEL KIMBRIEL 1 1 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 © Oxford University Press 2014 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kimbriel, Samuel, 1986– Friendship as sacred knowing : overcoming isolation / Samuel Kimbriel. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–0–19–936398–8 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 978–0–19–936399–5 (electronic text) 1. Knowledge, Theory of (Religion) 2. Philosophical theology. 3. Friendship—Religious aspects—Christianity. I. Title. BL51.K59527 2014 241’.6762—dc23 2013036373 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper For D My second friend Contents Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction 1 PART I: Friendship and Disengagement 1. Friendship and Isolation 9 2. Friendship, Virtue, and Contemplation 37 PART II: Friendship and Enquiry: Beyond Disengagement 3. Sacred Knowing and Indwelling Love 55 4. The Porous Enquirer 71 5. The Veiled Path: Enquiry, Agency, and Desire 99 6. Human Finitude and the Paradox of Enquiry 115 7. Friendship and Deification 138 Conclusion 161 Notes 173 Bibliography 199 Primary Texts Secondary Texts Index 216 Acknowledgments the present work manifests, not least, the great generosity of the friends and communities with whom I have been privileged to share my life. I wish to note how grateful I am for Johannes Börjesson, Federico Tedesco, Blake Allen, Cassie Kimbriel, Cooper Kimbriel, Simon Oliver, Alison Milbank, Karen Kilby, Eric Lee, Vittorio Montemaggi, Jacob Sher- man, Elizabeth Powell, Josh Vargo, Alex Englander, Richard McLauchlan, Jeff Phillips, Andrew Davison, and John Hughes. Their constant quiet support over these last years has been a great gift. In addition to their amity, many of these companions have offered the most fruitful com- ments about various drafts of this work, as have both of my parents, Beth Ratzlaff and Sam Kimbriel. I am particularly indebted to Catherine Pick- stock as well as to John Milbank and Janet Soskice for their abundant sup- port and kindness. I have been moved by the generosity and attentiveness with which Cynthia Read of Oxford University Press has supported this project, and I am grateful to her and to her assistants, Stuart Roberts and Marcela Max- field, for their expertise and enthusiasm in preparing the work for publica- tion. I am grateful to my sister, Mariah Velasquez, for her help in editing the manuscript and to the Master and Fellows of Pembroke College and the trustees of the Bethune-Baker Fund for financially supporting my research. I have dedicated this work to D Thompson, who first taught me the word friend. It is her love and that perpetually shown to me by my wife, Christine, that continue nearly every day to startle me with the resplen- dence of what this word could mean. SCK Feast of St. Benedict 2013 Pembroke College, Cambridge
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