RT Article
T1 God Extra-Phenomenal: For a Phenomenology of Holy Saturday
JF Journal for continental philosophy of religion
VO 4
IS 2
SP 190
OP 217
A1 Falque, Emmanuel 1963-
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1819976653
AB What does God do with the “holes” or “troumatisms” that comprise the limits of our existence, that “original solitude” whereby we are confronted with the impending annihilation of all sense? Are we left enclosed in it or does God accompany us there? This essay considers to what extent Christ’s descent on Holy Saturday takes part in the extra-phenomenal “impossibility of possibility” of this original solitude. Such a consideration requires distinguishing between that “underworld” Christ descends to on the Second Day from the sin that is the proper domain of “hell.” Christ descending to the underworld marks God entering our finitude so it may be transformed (Holy Saturday) rather than our faults so that we may be resurrected (Last Judgment). Philosophically, Holy Saturday, as the ab-sense and non-sense residing between Crucifixion (Good Friday) and Resurrection (Easter Sunday), exemplifies the extra-phenomenal in which nothing is manifested (phenomenology) nor signified (hermeneutics). This intermediate realm is then one in which God comes to meet us at the limit of our own finitude.
K1 Philosophy of religion
K1 original solitude
K1 Holy Saturday
K1 extra-phenomenal
DO 10.1163/25889613-bja10035