Abstract:
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’.
