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Indwelling, Intersubjectivity and God

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

Augustine Shutte
Augustine Shutte
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Philosophy Department University of Cape TownRondebosch 7700 Cape, South Africa
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I Suspect that at its close this article will be judged to have fallen between two stools, that of the theologian and that of the philosopher. Not being in a position to remedy the defects of either quarter makes me the keener to communicate to others something that has recently struck me and given me pause for thought, namely an apparent parallel between a certain aspect of contemporary philosophy and another of traditional theology. It is to these that the expressions ‘intersubjectivity’ and ‘indwelling’ in my title refer. It is my hope that an examination of the parallel between them will prove fruitful for the contemporary pursuit of the perennial occupation of fides quaerens intellectum.

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Research Article
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Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , June 1979 , pp. 201 - 216
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Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1979

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References

page 206 note 1 I Cor. 15.22.

page 208 note 1 Books I have found especially useful are: (a) Of the personalists: Nedoncelle, Maurice, Love and the Person (New York: Sheed and Ward, 1968)Google Scholar and Réciprocité des consciences (Paris: Aubier, 1942)Google Scholar; also Blondel, Maurice, L'Action (Paris, 1893)Google Scholar; and an extensive paraphrase and commentary on this in English, Somerville, J. M., Total Commitment: Blondel's ‘L'Action’ (Washington: Corpus Books, 1968).Google Scholar

(b) Of the existentialists: All the classical writers deal with intersubjectivity but a lucid and fairly synoptic account in English is Luijpen, W. A., Existential Phenomenology (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1960).Google Scholar

(c) Of the Thomists: Rahner, Karl, Hearers of the Word (London: Sheed and Ward, 1969)Google Scholar; and ‘Reflections on the Unity of the Love of Neighbour and the Love of God’ in Theological Investigations, Vol. 6 (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1967), pp. 231–249Google Scholar. Also Johann, R., The Meaning of Love (New York: Paulist Press, 1954).Google Scholar

Useful periodical articles in English are: Gallagher, K., ‘Self and Other: the Radical A Priori', International Philosophical Quarterly (1972), pp. 5–18Google Scholar; and Heron, John, ‘The Phenomenology of Social Encounter: The Gaze’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 31 (1971), pp. 243–264.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 209 note 1 Published in two volumes, The Self as Agent and Persons in Relation (London: Faber and Faber, 1956 and 1961).Google Scholar

page 209 note 2 Persons in Relation, p. 12.

page 209 note 3 ibid., p. 24.

page 210 note 1 The Self as Agent, p. 110.

page 210 note 2 ibid., p. 145.

page 210 note 3 vide Suzanne Langer's analysis of these cases in Philosophy in a New Key, Ch. 5.

page 214 note 1 op. cit., p. 158.

page 215 note 1 For the traditional ‘proof’ of this vide Aquinas, Thomas, Summa Theologiae, I, 90, 2. cf. also I, 118, 2.Google Scholar

page 216 note 1 vide G. Hegel, Early Theological Writings, and Charles Williams, The Forgiveness of Sins.