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Additional Physical Format: | (DLC) 960835478. |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jean-Luc Marion |
ISBN: | 9780823275847 0823275841 9780823275854 082327585X |
OCLC Number: | 960835478 |
Notes: | Includes index. |
Description: | xvi, 170 pages ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Reason and faith together -- Faith and reason -- In defense of argument -- The formal reason of the infinite -- Who speaks about it? -- On the eminent dignity of the poor baptized -- The service of rationality in the church -- The future of Catholicism -- What is possible and what shows itself -- Nothing is impossible for God -- The phenomenality of the sacrament -- Transcendence par excellence -- Recognition -- The recognition of the gift -- They recognized him and he became invisible to them -- The invisible saint. |
Series Title: | Perspectives in continental philosophy. |
Other Titles: | Essays. |
Responsibility: | Jean-Luc Marion ; translated by Christina M. Gschwandtner. |
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Abstract:
A phenomenological reflection on central aspects of Christian revelation: the practice of faith, the obligation and role of the baptized Christian, the gift of the sacraments, the future of Catholicism, the role of the Christian intellectual, examined always in light of their inherent rationality and relationship to philosophical reason.
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"Jean-Luc Marion is one of today's most pre-eminent philosophers of religion. The range of sources engaged, the detail of analytical rigor, and the profundity of insight-all are amply on display in this collection of essays spanning several decades of work. Newcomers to Marion's oeuvre, and those well acquainted with his work, will find in Believing in Order to See treasures to savor." -- -Norman Wirzba Duke Divinity School Read more...
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