The Saturated Phenomenon

Marion, Jean-Luc

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“…While this is an important question, our present purposes do not permit us to wade into the ongoing debate here as framed most notably by Dominique Janicaud; see his 'The Theological Turn of French Phenomenology', in Phenomenology and the 'Theological Turn', pp. 16 …”

Section: The Challenge Of the Gift: Phenomenology And Critiquementioning

confidence: 97%

“…15 Marion comments: '[T]he impossibility of this conceptual arrangement issues from the fact that the intuitive overabundance is no longer exposed within rules, whatever they may be, but overwhelms them; intuition is no longer exposed within the concept, but saturates it and renders it overexposed -invisible, not by lack of light, but by excess of light'. 16 The phenomenality of the beautiful form, say, a painting, is not truly apprehensible as a thing, as something 'ready-to-hand', but opens up to me in a manner of unsuspected appearing and inexhaustible depth:…”

Section: The 'Saturated Phenomenon'mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Because the excess 'cannot be borne by any gaze that would measure up to it ('objectively'), it is perceived ('subjectively') by the gaze in the negative mode of an impossible perception, the mode of bedazzlement'. 32 In other words, perceived absence is the subjective correlate to the objective surplus of givenness.…”

Section: The Christ Event: the 'Saturated Phenomenon' Par Excellmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Gift to Theology? Jean‐luc Marion's ‘Saturated Phenomenon’ in Christological Perspective

Robinette

2006

The Heythrop Journal

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Jean-Luc Marion has recently established himself as one of the most important and theologically fertile thinkers within the phenomenological tradition. With his study of 'the gift' and 'the saturated phenomenon', Marion presents a challenge to theology to rethink revelation in its surprising givenness, as exceeding the boundaries often set up in advance by metaphysics and a priori anthropological foundations. This paper examines Marion's mature thought, particularly within the perspective of Christology. The paper argues that Marion's phenomenological style of reflection, as adapted to theology, is deeply contemplative and markedly Johannine in sensibility. As a strategy for theology, the phenomenological style gives to it important incentives and skills for reading off God's self-revelation in Christ in its surprising and counterintuitive beauty. Marion's challenge/gift to theology is, however, in need of a balancing emphasis, one that appears too infrequently in his work: the ethicalprophetic dimension of the Christ event. In view of keeping both the mystical and prophetic poles of theology closely linked, the paper argues that just as beauty is a key category for saturated phenomena, so too is the reality of suffering and evil. However, whereas beauty invites a humble receptivity to and contemplative enjoyment of the gift, the inscrutable reality of suffering and evil, which so often exceeds comprehension, touches off a critical and practical response. In broadening the study of saturated phenomena to include the refractory character of experience, especially that which threatens humanity, Marion's valuable contributions to theology require a complementary emphasis from those narrative-practical Christologies that highlight the prophetic aspects of the tradition.

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Section: The Challenge Of the Gift: Phenomenology And Critiquementioning

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Section: The 'Saturated Phenomenon'mentioning

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Robinette

2006

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“…Its "place" is its sheer facticity and any constitution of the universe's space by the heroic modalities of human free will just reduce the universe to its limited phenomenality, the phenomenality which is not; for the universe is the saturated phenomenon invisible according to quantity, unbearable according quality, unconditioned according to relation and irreducible to the "I" according to modality. 40 From a phenomenological point of view, the universe as a saturated phenomenon…”

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The Universe as a Saturated Phenomenon: The Christian Concept of Creation in View of Modern Philosophical and Scientific Developments

Nesteruk¹

2014

Theology and Science

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“…As manners of being for beings -and not as two classes of being -the difference between the two lies in the way in which they signal that to which they refer. It 11.In a much earlier article, Marion (1996) developed this 'radical possibility' in terms of 'God's donation', characterising it as a 'saturated phenomenon'. His earlier exposition is helpful to make better sense of what the 'radical possibility' entails.…”

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The iconic significance of the Psalms as a literary genre for speaking about God: A phenomenological perspective

Veldsman

2011

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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To explore the impossible impossibility of speaking about God and to address, on the one hand, the unacceptable modernistic rational robe of totalisation and the return of the subject in postmodern contexts, on the other, this article pursued the phenomenological approach of Jean-Luc Marion’s hermeneutic of the icon. His approach is connected in a creative manner to the literary ‘eyes’ of the Psalter, focusing on the distinction of idol–icon by Marion in his understanding of the gaze of the worshipper and the subsequent conceptualisation of the infinite God in finite human terms. It was finally argued that the literary genre of the Psalter, viewed from a hermeneutic of the icon, presents not only an exciting perspective on the threshold of the ‘[im-]possible’ for speaking about God, but also on the return of the subject in the broadened horizon of the ‘unsayable’ and ‘unrepresentable’.

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The Saturated Phenomenon

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A Gift to Theology? Jean‐luc Marion's ‘Saturated Phenomenon’ in Christological Perspective

A Gift to Theology? Jean‐luc Marion's ‘Saturated Phenomenon’ in Christological Perspective

The Universe as a Saturated Phenomenon: The Christian Concept of Creation in View of Modern Philosophical and Scientific Developments

The iconic significance of the Psalms as a literary genre for speaking about God: A phenomenological perspective

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