by Adam S. Miller, Levi R. Bryant
"This book offers a novel account of grace framed in terms of Bruno Latour's "principle of irreduction." It thus models an object-oriented approach to grace, experimentally moving a traditional Christian understanding of grace out of a top-down, theistic ontology and into an agent-based, object-oriented ontology. In the process, it also provides a systematic and original account of Latour's overall project. The account of grace offered here redistributes the tasks assigned to science and religion. Where now the work of science is to bring into focus objects that are too distant, too resistant, and too transcendent to be visible, the business of religion is to bring into focus objects that are too near, too available, and too immanent to be visible. Where science reveals transcendent objects by correcting for our nearsightedness, religion reveals immanent objects by correcting for our farsightedness. Speculative Grace remaps the meaning of grace and examines the kinds of religious instruments and practices that, as a result, take center stage."--Publisher's website.
Adam Miller is married and the father of eight children. He graduated Summa cum laude in his majors of theology and philosophy from Mount St. Mary’s College (now University) in Emmitsburg, MD. With graduate work done in historical theology, he is a member of both Phi Sigma Tau, the national honor society in philosophy, and Theta Alpha Kappa, the national honor society in theology. Mr. Miller has taught elementary and high school religion, catechism, and history for twelve years, and is the founder and director of Tower of David Ministry and Publications, and Marian Publications, Inc., both of which are lay Catholic educational apostolates. The author of more than one dozen works defend…
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