Jesus' resurrection as a saturated phenomenon?

This paper examines Jean-Luc Marion's notion of a saturated phenomenon and assesses some of its strengths and weaknesses as a way of understanding Jesus' resurrection. It argues that Marion's notion is very helpful for understanding the uniqueness and decisiveness of Jesus' resur...

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Main Author: Schweitzer, Don 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2015]
In: Studies in religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 44, Issue: 4, Pages: 501-515
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Marion, Jean-Luc 1946- / Phenomenology / Theology / Resurrection
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
FA Theology
NBF Christology
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Summary:This paper examines Jean-Luc Marion's notion of a saturated phenomenon and assesses some of its strengths and weaknesses as a way of understanding Jesus' resurrection. It argues that Marion's notion is very helpful for understanding the uniqueness and decisiveness of Jesus' resurrection, its resistance to objectification, its transformative power and its excess of meaning. However, Marion's assertion that a person is completely passive in receiving a saturated phenomenon does not fit with the way Jesus' resurrection is described in the New Testament. This paper offers a correction to Marion's notion on this point, arguing that people do have the freedom to play an active role in their reception of Jesus' resurrection and in their constitution by it, a freedom founded by Jesus' resurrection itself.
ISSN:0008-4298
Contains:Enthalten in: Studies in religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0008429815599803