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Givenness and Revelation
Jean-Luc Marion
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Description for Givenness and Revelation
Hardcover. This work is based on Professor Marion's Gifford Lectures at the University of Glasgow. Translator(s): Lewis, Stephen E. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HRAB; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 129. .
Givenness and Revelation represents both the unity and the deep continuity of Jean-Luc Marions thinking over many decades. This investigation into the origins and evolution of the concept of revelation arises from an initial reappraisal of the tension between natural theology and the revealed knowledge of God or sacra doctrina. Marion draws on the re-definition of the notions of possibility and impossibility, the critique of the reification of the subject, and the unpredictability of the event in its relationship to the gift in order to assess the respective capacities of dogmatic theology, modern metaphysics, contemporary phenomenology, and the biblical texts, ... Read more
Givenness and Revelation represents both the unity and the deep continuity of Jean-Luc Marions thinking over many decades. This investigation into the origins and evolution of the concept of revelation arises from an initial reappraisal of the tension between natural theology and the revealed knowledge of God or sacra doctrina. Marion draws on the re-definition of the notions of possibility and impossibility, the critique of the reification of the subject, and the unpredictability of the event in its relationship to the gift in order to assess the respective capacities of dogmatic theology, modern metaphysics, contemporary phenomenology, and the biblical texts, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
269g
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198757733
SKU
V9780198757733
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About Jean-Luc Marion
Jean-Luc is a Member of the Académie française, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). He is the Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Professor of Catholic Studies, Professor of the Philosophy of Religions and Theology, and Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. He also ... Read more
Reviews for Givenness and Revelation
Giveness and Revelation takes in wide historical horizons. For Marion the uniqueness of the doctrine of the Trinity lies in its revelation of a unity consisting in love, "put into operation as communion". He counters the protest that Christianity betrays the monotheism of the other Abrahamic religions by arguing that Trinitarian theology discloses a unity "well beyond the empty unicity ... Read more