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Stellenbosch Theological Journal

On-line version ISSN 2413-9467
Print version ISSN 2413-9459

Abstract

COMPAAN, Auke. 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. STJ [online]. 2015, vol.1, n.1, pp.57-77. ISSN 2413-9467.  http://dx.doi.org/10.17570/STJ.2015.V1N1.A3.

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.

Keywords : Revelation; Metaphysics; Phenomenology; Givenness; Impossibility.

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