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- Much of his academic work has dealt with Descartes and phenomenologists like Martin Heidegger and Edmund Husserl, but also religion. God Without Being, for example, is concerned predominantly with an analysis of idolatry, a theme strongly linked in Marion's work with love and the gift, which is a concept also explored at length by Derrida.
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University of Chicago Divinity School scholar Jean-Luc Marion—widely regarded as one of the world’s leading Catholic thinkers—has been awarded the Ratzinger Prize for his lifetime achievements in theology.
At the same time, Marion's deep interest in theology was privately cultivated under the personal influence of theologians such as Louis Bouyer, Jean Daniélou, Henri de Lubac, and Hans Urs von Balthasar. From 1972 to 1980 he studied for his doctorate and worked as an assistant lecturer at the Sorbonne.
This article proposes a theological interpretation of Jean-Luc Marion that accents the importance of prayer as a remedy to conceptual idolatry. It also addresses theological concerns about Marion's understanding of the relationship between phenomenology and theology, and about his critical attitude toward ontology.
- Andrew Prevot
- 2014
Dec 20, 2006 · With his study of ‘the gift’ and ‘the saturated phenomenon’, Marion presents a challenge to theology to rethink revelation in its surprising givenness, as exceeding the boundaries often set up in advance by metaphysics and a priori anthropological foundations.
- Brian Robinette
- 2007
Oct 20, 2010 · Marion’s contributions may be regarded as both “destructive” and “constructive.” On the one hand, Marion makes clear why it is not solely a cause for despair that much of contemporary culture rejects thought about God or at least finds it irrelevant (as is particularly true of European culture).
- Christina M. Gschwandtner
- gschwandtnc2@scranton.edu
- 2011
In this essay, Marion argues that all of theology must center upon the abandonment of human agency that occurs in the Eucharistic consecration. Theology is a matter of conforming oneself increasingly to the Word, which means to renounce the constitutive subject of modernity. My study offers an exploration of and commentary on Marion's essay.
It outlines Marion’s project, focusing in particular on his proposal of a phenomenology of givenness, the possibility of saturated phenomena, and an erotic reduction that leads to the possibility of an alternative type of knowledge, grounded in the heart instead of the mind.
