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Chapter 7 - Revelation Exceeds Experience

from Part III - The Event of Revelation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2022

Robyn Horner
Affiliation:
Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
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Chapter 7 considers how the event has been characterised in philosophy and the implications for theology. Concerned that opposition to it is generated by fear that it simply (re)asserts theistic beliefs, I examine how Marion’s understanding of the event can legitimately engage with the thought of others. Jean Grondin's views illustrate one extreme of that engagement. Caputo's analysis of the opposition between intuition and intention illustrates a need to discern whether a phenomenological approach to the event is being undertaken on the basis of theistic or atheistic beliefs, or whether a point earlier to that distinction is envisaged. Jean-Luc Nancy 's event takes place prepredicatively and it is cast in terms of an empty intentionality of faith. I suggest that this is reminiscent of hyperphasis. I look to Lieven Boeve to see how such a radical apophatics might work theologically. Boeve dialogues with Jean-François Lyotard, who thinks the event in terms of its emptiness and givenness to feeling. I then consider how Claude Romano thinks the event as prepredicative, and I use his criteria to discern whether a philosophical reading of the event would preclude a theological application.

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The Experience of God
A Phenomenology of Revelation
, pp. 126 - 151
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Revelation Exceeds Experience
  • Robyn Horner, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
  • Book: The Experience of God
  • Online publication: 13 October 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009118729.010
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  • Robyn Horner, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
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  • Revelation Exceeds Experience
  • Robyn Horner, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
  • Book: The Experience of God
  • Online publication: 13 October 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009118729.010
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