Transcendence in Philosophy and ReligionIndiana University Press, 16. apr 2003 - 160 pages Can transcendence be both philosophical and religious? Do philosophers and theologians conceive of the same thing when they think and talk about transcendence? Philosophy and religion have understood transcendence and other matters of faith differently, but both the language and concepts of religion, including transcendence, reside at the core of postmodern philosophy. Transcendence in Philosophy and Religion considers whether it is possible to analyze religious transcendence in a philosophical manner, and if so, whether there is a way for phenomenology to think transcendence directly. Attention is devoted to the role of French philosophy, particularly the work of Levinas, Ricoeur, Derrida, and Marion, in defining recent debates in the philosophy of religion and posing new ways of thinking about religious experience in a postmodern world. |
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... analysis of religious phenomena . Phenomenological analysis of religion is possible , but phenomenology is condemned " to run the gauntlet of a herme- neutic and precisely of a textual or scriptural hermeneutic " ( Ricoeur , " Expéri ...
... analysis of religious phenomena may shed light on other phenomena . The first two essays of this volume , those by Merold Westphal and Ben Vedder , both argue for the prereflective origin of all philosophical thought and the necessity ...
... analysis to give new understanding to the decision at Trent in favor of transubstantia- tion . Moyaert argues that sacramental acts make up the core of Christian faith , with the Eucharist at the center of those acts . On this view ...
... analysis of the biblical story of Moses and Israel , Faulconer recognizes that there can be no question that this story establishes Israel and , therefore , the possibility of justice by appealing to transcendence . Neverthe- less , the ...
... analysis of the happening of events shows us that in every case what shows itself can only do so in virtue of “ a strictly and eidetically phenomenological self [ which is not an ego ] , which guarantees only that it gives itself and ...