John Betz and Emmanuel Falque have recently defined “metaphysics” as something intrinsic to the Christian faith. This faith, they claim, has always spoken metaphysically, until lately challenged by the likes of Heidegger and Marion. However, when we consider Heidegger and Marion's account, we find a completely different approach to metaphysics. For them, “metaphysics” is about modern metaphysics, defined with a view towards explaining the “devastation” of modern European and American society, its loss of religion, its wars, its technological and environmental decimation, and its philosophical and theological failures. This article revisits this debate and contends that until a more accurate understanding of Heidegger is achieved, no genuine debate on the nature of “metaphysics” is possible. To that end, I present the arguments of Betz and Falque, provide a more substantive engagement with Heidegger's thought on metaphysics, and then conclude with further implications for theology in its relation to metaphysics.
The philosopher John Niemeyer Findlay (1903–1987) held that the insights of mystical experience can be philosophically analyzed and articulated in rational form. Findlay provided two routes to the “mystical pole of the cosmos.” In the first, he appealed to the related notions of impersonality and impartiality to transc...
This article examines the semantic development of the terms עוֹלָם (ʿolam), αἰώνιος, and ἀΐδιος in the Old Testament, the Septuagint, and the New Testament, and evaluates their significance for contemporary eschatological debates. Attention is given to the relationship between the Hebrew concept of עוֹלָם and its Greek...
Alexandru Lazăr· Romanian Orthodox Old Testam...· 0 citations
When the rationalism of the Enlightenment and the wave of secularization shattered the traditional world’s religious protective shield, modern man found himself in the midst of a massive crisis of meaning and existence. The fundamental problem we pursue in this study is precisely this: How did the modern world overcome...
After a series of promising ecumenical meetings in 1929 and 1931 with the Jesuit Erich Przywara, who advocated an analogical understanding of the relationship between God and world – doing so in part to ward off the danger posed by modern forms of pantheism – Karl Barth abruptly threw down the gauntlet and presente...
J. Betz· International Journal of Sys...· 0 citations
The article explores the history of several readings of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus as proposed by representatives of French “angelism” (Guy Lardreau, Christian Jambet) and by François Laruelle, whom the work inspired to develop the “Nietzschean politics” project. Although the writings of Lardreau,...
Alexander D. Skovorodko· Вестник Пермского университе...· 0 citations
The revival of Spinozism in French philosophy is often interpreted as a unified project of radical immanence. However, behind this facade lie conceptual disagreements that are only revealed when comparing Deleuze, Simondon, and Balibar. It is these divergences, rather than similarities, that form the productive core of...
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