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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... Meaning and the Question of God : A Hermeneutic Approach BEN VEDDER / 35 3. The Sense of Symbols as the Core of Religion : A Philosophical Approach to a Theological Debate PAUL MOYAERT / 53 4. Philosophy and Transcendence : Religion and ...
... that religious experience may be relevant to phenomenological inquiry . Vedder's essay , " The Question into Meaning and the Question of God : A Hermeneutic Approach , ” makes a related point differently . 3 Thinking Transcendence.
... meaning requires context , Vedder 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 ...
... meaning of the being of this nothing , thus causing it to escape from pure alterity ” ( 116 ) . It does not follow that thought must renounce the possibility of accord with anything beyond the circle of immanence . One can think ...
... meaning of the world . " b ) " God does not belong to this world . " Therefore c ) , " the question of being , which is relevant only to Dasein and the world , does not apply to God : God is beyond being . " The argument is , however ...