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...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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[2021]
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Modern theology
Año: 2021, Volumen: 37, Número: 1, Páginas: 3-22 |
| (Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar: | B
Kearney, Richard 1954-
/ Desmond, William 1951-
/ Oración
/ Metafísica
/ Dios
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| Clasificaciones IxTheo: | CB Existencia cristiana KAJ Época contemporánea NBC Dios VA Filosofía |
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Volltext (Publisher) Volltext (doi) |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-0025 |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: Modern theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/moth.12589 |
