Levinas and the Significance of Passivity in the Christian Religious Experience

Analyzing the tendency of Christian believers to rationalize the religious experience of the face of the Other, I reveal through Levinas, how, in doing so, they paradoxically neglect to perceive God, who is love. I will focus on the appropriate response shown by both Levinas and Christ in the inter-...

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Main Author: Cyfko, James (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter 2018
In: Open theology
Year: 2018, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 511-519
Further subjects:B Ethics
B self-Other relationship
B Substitution
B Love
B Transcendence
B Levinas
B Christianity
B Guilt
B Kenosis
B phenomenology of religion
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