“If It Be Your Will”: Making Promises with Derrida, Ricoeur and Chauvet
Through a critical engagement with the work of Derrida, Ricoeur and Chauvet, the author defines the Christian vow or promise as an ever-new performance of the self in favour of the “other”. The notion of the asymmetry of one's relationship with the other is explored in terms of a “call” in the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2003
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Pacifica
Year: 2003, Volume: 16, Issue: 3, Pages: 271-294 |
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| Summary: | Through a critical engagement with the work of Derrida, Ricoeur and Chauvet, the author defines the Christian vow or promise as an ever-new performance of the self in favour of the “other”. The notion of the asymmetry of one's relationship with the other is explored in terms of a “call” in the face of another, any other, which is experienced as more originary that one's own sense of self. This call has a particularly apocalyptic or eschatological dimension to it. It unsettles and destabilises the Christian self in the same movement as it produces and makes that self real. The call effects a radical destabilisation of the self such that the self may only come to be by making room for the other who is Christ. The paper concludes that eucharistic worship, as a constant re/membering of the Christian's death and resurrection in Christ, is a primary or exemplary instance of the vow so defined. |
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| ISSN: | 1839-2598 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Pacifica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/1030570X0301600303 |