Givenness and Revelation

Marion, Jean-Luc

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“…One important methodological component of this approach is of particular interest here, namely that what is projected by human subjectivity can be seen working with, rather than against, ‘givenness’ or revelation. In other words, there is a cooperation between the projections of human subjectivity, and the revelations that this subjectivity ‘receives’ (Marion, , ). One central way in which this cooperation can be interpreted is through linguistic or discursive practices, and here we are able to connect with the central argument of this paper: the role of language in the formation of the self.…”

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Languages of Love: The Formative Power of Religious Language

Lewin¹

2019

Journal of Philosophy of Education

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How we are to understand the formative and informative processes of language? At one level, language is understood as a medium for communicating knowledge through propositions that form or represent cognitive understanding and so can be defined as informative. The concern of this article is to explore the scope of this notion of linguistic and conceptual informing and to consider what it overlooks. I argue that straightforwardly propositional, descriptive and cognitive accounts of language leave out a great deal that properly belongs to language, namely the poetic, aesthetic and affective. I consider the distinction between the propositional statement and the poetic utterance initially through a discussion of the cognitive and affective modes of understanding. The argument explores a number of contexts in which language is primarily affective and formative, from Yoga Sutras to medieval Christian monasticism, in order to consider the varieties of affective and formative language. I argue that forms of devotional speech intended to form the person (the soul of the practitioner) are significantly affective as well as cognitive, forming the speaker in ways that are seldom considered in the context of more rationalist views of language. I then explore how a more poetic, aesthetic or affective kind of language can be seen shaping, or re‐orienting desire. Finally, I argue that the theological understanding of negation (apophatic theology) can be helpfully applied to both the negation of our cognitive understanding (of God), as well as our desire (for God) and show the educational significance through considerations of formation.

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Languages of Love: The Formative Power of Religious Language

Lewin¹

2019

Journal of Philosophy of Education

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“…How this may apply to the phenomenology of the Trinity is the topic of Marion's Gifford lectures, published as Givenness and Revelation (Marion, ). Recall, as the gifted, I am the receiver (i.e., receptacle or screen on which phenomena appear).…”

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“…Marion does engage in selective readings of Augustine and Basil of Caesarea, especially concerning the work of the Holy Spirit, in the discussion of the Trinity. See Marion (, pp.100–10).…”

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Phenomenologies of the trinity: Trends in recent philosophy of religion

Rivera

2018

Philosophy Compass

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This article discusses the theoretical issues and findings of a recent trend in phenomenology of religion: the manifestation of the Trinity. Section one highlights the classical model of the Trinity as mystery. The Trinity is as an elusive phenomenon that can be grasped only as an article of faith. Section two outlines important features of manifestation and experience in Husserl's phenomenology, which lays the conceptual groundwork for the phenomenology of religion. Section three discusses two proposals of a phenomenology of the Trinity, in which faith can be understood as an intentional stance may make possible the Trinity's manifestation as a subjective phenomenon. The conclusion locates the principal weakness of the phenomenology of the Trinity in the proponents' tendency to ignore doctrinal development and theological debate, especially of the fourth and fifth-centuries, which gave shape to the Trinity as a doctrine as such.

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“…This is the justification he gives for an analysis of the Trinity in the Gifford Lectures, published as Givenness and Revelation , trans. Stephen E. Lewis (Oxford: Blackwell, ).…”

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What is Phenomenology of Religion? (Part II): The Phenomenology of Religious Experience

Gschwandtner

2019

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This article is part II of a consideration of phenomenology of religion focusing in this part on the conversation in contemporary French phenomenology. It begins with a brief comment about Heidegger's phenomenology of religious life and then engages most heavily those thinkers who discuss the phenomenon of religion in the Francophone context: Jean Héring, Emmanuel Lévinas, Jean‐Luc Marion, Michel Henry, Jean‐Yves Lacoste, Jean‐Louis Chrétien, and Emmanuel Falque. The article concludes with a brief consideration of the contemporary Anglophone conversation and the ways in which these French thinkers are appropriated in the current discussion about the phenomenality of religion.

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Givenness and Revelation

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Languages of Love: The Formative Power of Religious Language

Languages of Love: The Formative Power of Religious Language

Phenomenologies of the trinity: Trends in recent philosophy of religion

What is Phenomenology of Religion? (Part II): The Phenomenology of Religious Experience

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