The revelation of Christ as an impossible impossibility : a critical reading of Jean-Luc Marion's contribution to the post-modern debate in phenomenology, philosophy of religion and theology

dc.contributor.authorCompaan, Auke
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-11T05:52:19Z
dc.date.available2016-03-11T05:52:19Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianhb2015en_ZA
dc.description.librarianae2025en
dc.description.sdgSDG-04: Quality educationen
dc.description.urihttp://ojs.reformedjournals.co.za/index.php/stjen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationCompaan, A 2015, 'The revelation of Christ as an impossible impossibility : a critical reading of Jean-Luc Marion's contribution to the post-modern debate in phenomenology, philosophy of religion and theology', Stellenbosch Theological Journal, vol. 1, no.1, pp. 57-77.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2413-9459 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2413-9467 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.17570/stj.2015.v1n1.a3
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/51775
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherStellenbosch University, Faculty of Theologyen_ZA
dc.rights© 2015 Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, Stellenbosch. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.en_ZA
dc.subjectRevelationen_ZA
dc.subjectMetaphysicsen_ZA
dc.subjectPhenomenologyen_ZA
dc.subjectGivennessen_ZA
dc.subjectImpossibilityen_ZA
dc.subject.otherTheology articles SDG-04
dc.subject.otherSDG-04: Quality education
dc.titleThe revelation of Christ as an impossible impossibility : a critical reading of Jean-Luc Marion's contribution to the post-modern debate in phenomenology, philosophy of religion and theologyen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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