Transcendence in Philosophy and Religion (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion)

can Transcendence Be Both Philosophical And Religious? Do Philosophers And Theologians Conceive Of The Same Thing When They Think And Talk About Transcendence? Philosophy And Religion Have Understood Transcendence And Other Matters Of Faith Differently, But Both The Language And Concepts Of Religion, Including Transcendence, Reside At The Core Of Postmodern Philosophy. Transcendence In Philosophy And Religion Considers Whether It Is Possible To Analyze Religious Transcendence In A Philosophical Manner, And If So, Whether There Is A Way For Phenomenology To Think Transcendence Directly. Attention Is Devoted To The Role Of French Philosophy, Particularly The Work Of Levinas, Ricoeur, Derrida, And Marion, In Defining Recent Debates In The Philosophy Of Religion And Posing New Ways Of Thinking About Religious Experience In A Postmodern World. Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 8 Introduction: Thinking Transcendence......Page 12 PART I. HERMENEUTICS AND PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTION......Page 22 1. Whose Philosophy? Which Religion? Reflections on Reason as Faith......Page 24 2. The Question into Meaning and the Question of God: A Hermeneutic Approach......Page 46 3. The Sense of Symbols as the Core of Religion: A Philosophical Approach to a Theological Debate......Page 64 4. Philosophy and Transcendence: Religion and the Possibility of Justice......Page 81 PART II. RETHINKING PHENOMENOLOGY FROM RELIGION......Page 96 5. The Event, the Phenomenon, and the Revealed......Page 98 6. Phenomenality and Transcendence......Page 117 7. Transcendence and the Hermeneutic Circle: Some Thoughts on Marion and Heidegger......Page 131 Contributors......Page 156 Index......Page 158 A witty and stimulating inquiry into religion and mysticism by the best-selling philosopher and author of The Riddle of Scheherazade and The Tao Is Silent Since Kant, we have been face with the question of how to think transcendence.