RT Article
T1 Hart and Sartre on God and Consciousness
JF International journal of philosophy and theology
VO 82
IS 1
SP 34
OP 50
A1 Leung, King-Ho
LA English
PB Taylor & Francis
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1752573420
AB This article offers a comparative reading of the ontologies of David Bentley Hart and Jean-Paul Sartre as well as their respective appeals to phenomenology as a philosophical method. While it may seem odd to compare one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated atheists with one of contemporary Christianity’s most highly-acclaimed critics of atheism, this article shows that there are many surprising parallels between the ontological outlooks of Hart and Sartre, namely their conceptions of God as the unity of being and consciousness and their accounts of human consciousness as a desire to ‘become God’. By examining the similarities and differences between Sartre’s and Hart’s philosophical and theological works, this article seeks to highlight the phenomenological aspects of Hart’s theological outlook and consider how Hart’s appeal to the phenomenological analysis of intentional consciousness in his theological work can illuminate our understanding of the ongoing engagements between theology and phenomenology.
K1 Ontology
K1 Intentionality
K1 Consciousness
K1 David Bentley Hart
K1 Jean-Paul Sartre
K1 Phenomenology
DO 10.1080/21692327.2021.1896374