RT Review
T1 Ricœur Before the ‘Hermeneutical Turn’: Two Works on the Early Ricœur Ricœur at the Limits of Philosophy: God, Creation, and Evil, Barnabas Aspray, Cambridge University Press, 2022 (ISBN 978-1-009-18674-2), x + 254 pp., hb £75 A Companion to Ricœur's The Symbolism of Evil, (ed.), Lexington Books, 2020 (ISBN 978-1-4985-8714-3), xx + 226 pp., hb £73
JF Reviews in religion and theology
VO 31
IS 4
SP 169
OP 174
A1 Best, Jonathan
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1906007608
AB This review article explores two recent works on Paul Ricœur, A Companion to Ricoeur's The Symbolism of Evil, edited by Scott Davidson, and Ricœur at the Limits of Philosophy: God, Creation, and Evil by Barnabas Aspray. Both works focus on Ricœur's early works, before the ‘hermeneutical turn’. In this review, I show how both works demonstrate Ricœur's applicability to contemporary theological thought, especially concerning the symbols of creation and evil. Ultimately, both works show the depth and complexity of Ricœur's early work and his continued importance for understanding how the symbols of creation, existence, finitude and God are deep and multifaceted.
K1 Theology
K1 Symbol
K1 Paul Ricœur
K1 Finitude
K1 Evil
K1 Creation
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1111/rirt.14350