Icon, love and the possibility of the other

Abstract

Is it possible to believe in God and speak about God with intellectual integrity in our post-modern world with its apparent cultural disintegration of Christian symbols, language and rituals? The article wants to examine the profound critique of the French philosopher, Jean Luc Marion on western metaphysics, and his renewal of the phenomenological tradition of Husserl and Heidegger, to explore if he can open a way forward for theology in our postmodern cultural context. Marion claims that there are phenomena that can be received that exceeds being and thought, making it possible to contextualize theology as a non-metaphysical possibility. The critical question that Marion must answer to accomplish his purpose is: can he truly overcome metaphysics, or is he just affirming that which he criticizes?