joeri schrijvers retweetledi

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…
Clifton Stringer offers a very thoughtful review in Modern Theology of the recent Jean-Yves Lacoste volume to which I contributed a chapter. The portion of the review quoted below particularly caught my attention.
"DeLay would find common cause with [Kevin Hart’s] and Lacoste’s approach to irreducible phenomena, and DeLay throws down a gem of particularly theological and revelational provocation in this regard:
'For if the goal of phenomenology is to describe our experiences exactly as they are, without ever altering them, and so adhering to a “Hands-off Principle” in doing so, an adequate description of the advent of God to consciousness must acknowledge that the phenomenon at stake is a revelation, the meaning of which consists precisely in God’s making himself known, and thus a fortiori really existing. … To bracket the transcendent reality of God when attempting to describe the appearing would alter its fundamental dimension: namely, that it discloses us essentially to be someone whose form of existence, whether we had till then realized it or not, is that of being-before-God. … When considering the question of who I am essentially, ignoring the fact of God’s existence would not be to disregard an item of irrelevance, but to miss its most indispensable dimension.'
St. Bonaventure could not agree more."
English

















