RT Book
T1 Dialectical anatomy of the Eucharist: an étude in phenomenology
A1 Wallenfang, Donald 1978-
LA English
PP Eugene
PB Cascade Books
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/896808017
AB For centuries, Christian theology has understood the Eucharist in terms of metaphysics or in protest against it. Today an opening has been made to imagine the sacrament through the method of phenomenology, bringing about new theological life and meaning. In Dialectical Anatomy of the Eucharist, Donald Wallenfang conducts a sustained analysis of the Eucharist through the aperture of phenomenology, yet concludes the study with poetic and metaphysical twists. Engaging the work of Jean-Luc Marion, Paul Ricoeur, and Emmanuel Levinas, Wallenfang proposes pioneering ideas for contemporary sacramental theology that have vast implications for interfaith and interreligious dialogue. By tapping into the various currents within the Judeo-Christian tradition--Jewish, Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant--a radical argument is developed that leverages the tension among them all. Several new frontiers are explored: dialectical theology, a fourth phenomenological reduction, the phenomenology of human personhood, the poetics of the Eucharist, and a reinterpretation of the concept of gift as conversation. On the whole, Wallenfang advances recent debates surrounding the relationship between phenomenology and theology by claiming an uncanny way out of emerging dead ends in philosophical theology: return to the fray
CN BX2200
SN 9781498293396
SN 9781498293419
K1 Lord's Supper
K1 Sacraments : Catholic Church
K1 Phenomenology
K1 Theology
K1 Phenomenological theology
K1 Dialectical theology
K1 Philosophical Theology
K1 Sacraments