Revelation comes from elsewhere : a contribution to a critical history and a phenomenal concept of revelation / Jean-Luc Marion ; translated by Stephen E. Lewis and Stephanie Rumpza.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marion, Jean-Luc, 1946- author.

Contributor:

Lewis, Stephen E. (Stephen Evarts), translator.

Rumpza, Stephanie, 1986- translator.

Series:

Cultural Memory in the Present Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phenomenological theology.

Revelation--Christianity.

Revelation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (534 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Jean-Luc Marion has long endeavored to broaden our view of truth. In this illuminating new book—his deepest engagement with theology to date—Marion proposes a rigorous new understanding of human and divine revelation in a deeply phenomenological key. Although today considered the central theme of theology, the concept of Revelation was almost entirely unknown to the first millennium of Christian thought. In a penetrating historical deconstruction, Marion traces the development of this term to the rise of metaphysics from Aquinas through Suárez, Descartes, and Kant; formalized into an epistemological framework, this understanding of Revelation has restricted philosophical and theological thinking ever since. To break free from these limits, Marion takes hints from theologians including Barth and Balthasar while mobilizing the phenomenology of givenness to provide a rigorous new understanding of revelation as a mode of uncovering. His extensive study of the Jewish and Christian Scriptures unfolds a logic of Trinitarian phenomenality, worked out in conversation with Basil, Augustine, Hegel, Schelling, and others, that ultimately transforms our very notions of being and time. The result is precisely what we have come to expect from this acclaimed philosopher: masterful historical scholarship working in tandem with daring originality.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half-title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Translators' Note

Introduction

Foreword

Part I: Envoy

1. The Privilege of a Question

2. The Privilege of a Notion: Revelation

Part II: The Constitution of the Aporia

3. Thomas Aquinas and the Epistemological Interpretation

4. Suárez and the Sufficiency of the Proposition

5. The Magisterium's Reserve

6. The Metaphysical Origin of the Common Concept of Revelation

Part III: The Restitution of a Theological Concept

7. The Possibilities and the Aporias of a Theological Concept of Revelation

8. Unconcealment or Uncovering

9. "Ista revelatio, ipsa est attractio"

10. The Other Logic and Its Determinations

Part IV: Christ as Phenomenon

11. Nobody's Manifestation

12. What the "Mystery" Uncovers (Paul)

13. Parable and Confession (the Synoptics)

14. The "Mystery"-of Whom? (John)

Part V: The Icon of the Invisible

15. Monotheism and Trinity: An Ontic Model

16. Immanence and Economy: A Historical Model

17. The Trinity as Icon: A Phenomenal Model

18. The Trinity as the Phenomenality of the Gift

Part VI: The Opening

19. Being, Uncovered from Elsewhere

20. Time, Uncovered from Elsewhere

Notes

Index

Series Page

Back Cover.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5036-3935-5

OCLC:

1441723620