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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... argues that what he calls " the theological turn " of French phenomenology - in other words , the turn toward the Other , the invisible , pure givenness , the Archi - Revelation , and so on - is a mistake and a departure from ...
... argues that religion and philosophy are the same in that both require faith . To be sure , philosophical faith and religious faith are not the same . But in spite of that difference , it is important to recognize that they share the ...
... argues , we understand the meaning of religious and philosophical claims about God and transcendence only if we understand the original narratives that motivate the issues that give rise to the claims in ques- tion . Stories of a ...
... argues , that , if religion is relevant to thinking transcendence philosophically , we will find that relevance in theologia orans rather than in rational theology . The second essay to attempt to find a touchstone of phenomenological ...
... argues that givenness precedes manifestation ; therefore , we must look to manifestation to see , indirectly , whether we can find some trace of the givenness of things , of donation . Marion uses the hall at the Catholic Institute of ...