Marion and Theology

Prof Christina M. Gschwandtner (Fordham University, USA)

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Bloomsbury Publishing
22 June 2016

Philosophy; Philosophy of religion

Series: Philosophy and Theology

Jean-Luc Marion’s early work on Descartes and his more recent writings in phenomenology have not only elicited huge interest in France and the US, but also created huge potential in the field of theology. This book is organised around central questions about the divine raised by Marion’s work: how to speak of God, how to approach God, how to experience God, how to receive God, how to believe in God, how to worship God. Within that context it deals with the important aspects of his philosophical work: the inspiration of his writings in what he calls Descartes’ “white theology” and its late medieval context as well as the apophatic theology associated with Dionysius the Areopagite; his important claims about idolatrous and iconic ways of speaking of the divine; his notion of the saturated phenomenon or a phenomenology of revelation and givenness, and his extensive writings on love.

Christina M. Gschwandtner also considers Marion’s explicitly theological writings and establishes their relationship to his larger phenomenological oeuvre. Overall, it approaches Marion’s work not only as a philosophy of religion, but with specifically theological questions in mind. It hence shows how Marion’s extensive historical and phenomenological work can be profitable and inspiring for theology today, for both systematic questions and for concerns of spirituality, in a way that holds the theoretical and the practical together.

By: Prof Christina M. Gschwandtner (Fordham University USA)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 204g
ISBN: 9780567660213
ISBN 10: 0567660214
Series: Philosophy and Theology
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 22 June 2016
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christina M. Gschwandtner is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, USA. She is the author of Reading Jean-Luc Marion: Exceeding Metaphysics (2007) and Postmodern Apologetics? Arguments for God in Contemporary Philosophy (2012).

Reviews for Marion and Theology

If there is one door that opens broadly and easily into the beautiful and difficult world of Jean-Luc Marion, it is the book you are holding in your hands as you read these words: a work that traces, with exemplary rigor, the mutual involvement of phenomenology and theology in the thought of this major philosopher. The lucidity, thoroughness and the generousity of Christina Gschwandtner's book are nothing short of extraordinary. Kevin Hart, University of Virginia, USA This is a splendid twofer from a writer who is probably our finest interpreter of Marion;s work. Because of its clarity and comprehensiveness it serves as the best introduction to his thought. Because of the connections and continuities it shows among elements that might otherwise seem to stand along, it will provide insight and illumination to those who are long time readers of Marion. Merold Westphal. Fordham University, USA