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Jean-Luc Marion has long endeavored to broaden our view of truth. In this illuminating new bookhis deepest engagement with theology to dateMarion proposes a rigorous new understanding of human and divine revelation in a deeply phenomenological key.

Although today considered the central theme of theology, the concept of Revelation was almost entirely unknown to the first millennium of Christian thought. In a penetrating historical deconstruction, Marion traces the development of this term to the rise of metaphysics from Aquinas through Suárez, Descartes, and Kant; formalized into an epistemological framework, this understanding of Revelation has restricted philosophical and theological thinking ever since. To break free from these limits, Marion takes hints from theologians including Barth and Balthasar while mobilizing the phenomenology of givenness to provide a rigorous new understanding of revelation as a mode of uncovering. His extensive study of the Jewish and Chris

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: 8/20/2024
      ISBN13: 9781503633377, 978-1503633377
      ISBN10: 1503633373
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      Phenomenology and Existentialism

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      Book Synopsis

      Jean-Luc Marion has long endeavored to broaden our view of truth. In this illuminating new bookhis deepest engagement with theology to dateMarion proposes a rigorous new understanding of human and divine revelation in a deeply phenomenological key.

      Although today considered the central theme of theology, the concept of Revelation was almost entirely unknown to the first millennium of Christian thought. In a penetrating historical deconstruction, Marion traces the development of this term to the rise of metaphysics from Aquinas through Suárez, Descartes, and Kant; formalized into an epistemological framework, this understanding of Revelation has restricted philosophical and theological thinking ever since. To break free from these limits, Marion takes hints from theologians including Barth and Balthasar while mobilizing the phenomenology of givenness to provide a rigorous new understanding of revelation as a mode of uncovering. His extensive study of the Jewish and Chris

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