Theological Fringes of Phenomenology

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-48597-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 372 g

Reihe: Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies

This book focuses on the relationships between phenomenology and theology, which have been varied and complex but seem currently in an inconclusive and loosely defined state. Methodological rigor is not much in evidence, and the two disciplines continue to defy any authoritative synthesis. While both disciplines grapple with questions concerning the fundamental structures of human experience, their relationship is troubled by the elusive roles of Revelation and faith, which threaten the scientific autonomy of philosophy on one side and disable theologians for consistent philosophical discourse on the other. This volume revisits that conundrum from various perspectives, as it at once repristinates some of the most vibrant points of encounter and opens possibilities for new beginnings. It begins with the theological musings into which leading phenomenologists have been drawn from the start, with special reference to Husserl, Heidegger, and Michel Henry, as well as backward glances to Fichte, Schelling, and Blondel. A second section takes up specific theological themes and examines how phenomenological approaches can refine thinking on them. These include the Incarnation, the Resurrection, the Eucharist, Grace, and Prayer. A dialogue between phenomenology and classical theologians is staged in the third section: Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, Eckhart, and Karl Rahner. The closing section ranges more widely, discussing atheism, non-realist theology, and Hinduism from phenomenological angles, and showing how these topics too come within the ambit of theology.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rivera, Joseph

O'Leary, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Phenomenology, Experience, and the Spiritual Life

Joseph Rivera

Part I: Phenomenologists in Theological Mode

1 Lived Experience and Faith: Transcendental Phenomenological Prolegomena

James G. Hart

2 Husserl and God

Emmanuel Housset

3 Intersubjectivity, Ethics, and the Christic Dimension in Husserl’s Transcendental Phenomenology

Maria Villela-Petit

4 The Later Heidegger and Theology

Joeri Schrijvers

5 Phenomenology and Theology in Heidegger’s Readings of Schelling

Joseph S. O’Leary

6 From Love to Auto-affection: Divine Revelation in Fichte’s Religionslehre and Michel Henry’s Radical Phenomenology

Frédéric Seyler

Part II: Theological Themes

7 Incarnational Phenomenology

Tamsin Jones

8 A Phenomenological Reading of the Resurrection

Brian D. Robinette

9 A Phenomenological Approach to Ritual Practices

Christina Gschwandtner

10 Becoming Living Works of Art: A Phenomenology of Liturgy

Bruce Benson

11: Phenomenology of the Gift (and Grace)

Jason W. Alvis

12: Kierkegaard and the Phenomenology of Patience

J. Aaron Simmons

13: The Enigma of Suffering in Phenomenology and Theology

Jeffrey Bloechl

14: The Gift of Joy

Robyn Horner

Part III: Phenomenological Readings of Theological Classics

15 Temporality and Signification: The Augustine Constitution of Time

Vincent Giraud

16 Denys the Areopagite among the Phenomenologists

Ysabel de Andia

17 To Live and Think without Why: Eckhart’s Affinities with Phenomenology

Jean Greisch

18 The Prospects of a Christian Phenomenology in Karl Rahner

Peter Joseph Fritz

PART IV Reaching out beyond the Theological Enclave

19 Invoking the God, Welcoming the Stranger

Jacob Rogozinski

20 Religion without Religion

Colby Dickinson

21 Phenomenology, Theology, and Religious Studies

Nikolaas Cassidy-Deketelaere

22 Hinduism and Phenomenology

Olga Louchakova-Schwartz

Über Autor(innen)

Joseph Rivera is an Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion, Dublin City University, Ireland.

Joseph S. O’Leary is an Irish theologian who taught literature at Sophia University, Tokyo, and held the Roche Chair for Interreligious Research at Nanzan University in Japan.