Sacredness and Aesthetics: Kearney and Desmond on Prayer

Heidegger famously asserted that one cannot pray to the God of onto-theo-logic. God is here made into a determinate concept, the highest idea of reason, and thereby loses its constitutive transcendence and personhood. To think of God appropriately after Heidegger means to think of God in a way amena...

Full description

Saved in:  
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Auweele, Dennis vanden 1986- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Journals Online & Print:
Drawer...
Fernleihe:Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste
Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2021]
In: Modern theology
Year: 2021, Volume: 37, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-22
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Kearney, Richard 1954- / Desmond, William 1951- / Prayer / Metaphysics / God
IxTheo Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
NBC Doctrine of God
VA Philosophy
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
Volltext (doi)
Description
Summary:Heidegger famously asserted that one cannot pray to the God of onto-theo-logic. God is here made into a determinate concept, the highest idea of reason, and thereby loses its constitutive transcendence and personhood. To think of God appropriately after Heidegger means to think of God in a way amenable to prayer. It is widely recognized that deconstruction does not fare well on this score as it turns prayer into some form of meditation/contemplation. In response, one ought to look for something between onto-theo-logic and deconstruction. In this article, I explore and assess two attempts to do so, by Richard Kearney and William Desmond respectively. I argue that Kearney does not manage to escape the trap of deconstruction because he does not allow for an intimation of God in prayer. This is achieved in a more metaphysical register by Desmond.
ISSN:1468-0025
Contains:Enthalten in: Modern theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/moth.12589