Abstract:
This article is an attempt to establish the phenomenological and theological value of
the concept of Revelation in the work of the French philosopher Jean-Luc Marion in a
post-modern cultural and intellectual context. Is it possible to speak of revelation in a
phenomenological sense and more radically, about the Revelation of God, after the
critique of metaphysics and phenomenology by Derrida, Caputo and others? Marion
argues that by overcoming metaphysics and broadening the limits of traditional
phenomenology to include phenomena of Revelation, the Revelation of Christ is
a phenomenological impossible impossibility. Using Marion’s reinterpretation of
Husserl and Heidegger`s understanding of “givenness”, “the given” and the “gift” and
his concept of Revelation as a saturated phenomenon, I want to critically illuminate
his contribution to the concept of Revelation as a post-metaphysical and theological
possibility.
