Believing in Order to See: On the Rationality of Revelation and the Irrationality of Some Believers

Believing in Order to See: On the Rationality of Revelation and the Irrationality of Some Believers

Believing in Order to See: On the Rationality of Revelation and the Irrationality of Some Believers

Believing in Order to See: On the Rationality of Revelation and the Irrationality of Some Believers

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Overview

Faith and reason, especially in Roman Catholic thought, are less contradictory today than ever. But does the supposed opposition even make sense to begin with? One can lose faith, but surely not because one gains in reason. Some, in fact, lose faith when reason is not able to make sense of the experiences of our lives. We very quickly realize that reason does not understand everything. Immense areas remain incomprehensible and irrational, which we abandon to belief and opinion.

Soon we definitively renounce thinking what that has been excluded from the realm of the thinkable. Ideological nightmares arise from this slumber of reason. Thus, the separation between faith and reason, too quickly taken as self-evident and even natural, is born from a lack of rationality, an easy capitulatin of reason before what is supposedly unthinkable. Rather than lose faith through excessive rationality, we often lose rationality because faith is too quickly excluded from the realm that it claims to open, that of revelation. We lose reason by losing faith.

Examining such topics as the role of the intellectual in the church, the rationality of faith, the infinite worth and incomprehensibility of the human, the phenomenality of the sacraments, and the phenomenological nature of miracles and of revelation more broadly, this book spans the range of Marion's thought on Christianity. Throughout he stresses that faith has its own rationality, structured according to the logic of the gift that calls forth a response of love and devotion through kenotic abandon.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780823275847
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 04/03/2017
Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Edition description: Translatio
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Jean-Luc Marion is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Paris-Sorbonne Paris IV, Dominique Dubarle Professor of Philosophy at the Institut catholique de Paris, Andrew T. Greely and Grace McNichols Greeley Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and a member of the Academie française.

Christina M. Gschwandtner is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University.

Table of Contents

Preface
Translator's Note

Part I: Reason and Faith Together
Faith and Reason
In Defense of Argument
The Formal Reason of the Infinite

Part II: Who Speaks of It?
Of the Eminent Dignity of the Poor Baptized
The Service of Rationality in the Church
The Future of Catholicism

Part III: What Is Possible and What Shows Itself
Nothing Is Impossible for God
The Phenomenality of the Sacrament
The Highest Transcendence

Part IV: Recognition
The Recognition of the Gift
"They Recognized Him and He Became Invisible to Them"
The Invisible Saint 000

Notes
Index
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