Do Radical Theologians Pray?: A Spirituality of the Event
Radical theology is not only an academic inquiry but also a radical spirituality. This point is confirmed in the phenomenology of radical prayer found in Derrida’s “Circumfession”. Derrida’s prayer takes place in a theopoetic space opened by a theopoetic epoche, which suspends both the supernatural...
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Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
Язык: | Английский |
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2021
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Religions
Год: 2021, Том: 12, Выпуск: 9 |
Другие ключевые слова: | B
Augustine
B event radical theology B theopoetic epoche B Confession B circumfession B Derrida B radical spirituality B spectrality B Prayer |
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Итог: | Radical theology is not only an academic inquiry but also a radical spirituality. This point is confirmed in the phenomenology of radical prayer found in Derrida’s “Circumfession”. Derrida’s prayer takes place in a theopoetic space opened by a theopoetic epoche, which suspends both the supernatural signified (supernaturalism, praying to a Supreme Being) and the transcendental signified (rationalism, reducing prayer to a subjective fantasy). Radical prayer is compared to Augustine’s prayer in the Confessions, taken here as a paradigm of classical prayer. The difference is not that Augustine is really praying and Derrida’s prayer is a literary conceit, but that Augustine’s prayer takes place within a determined set of “beliefs”, of material symbols in which to incarnate his prayer, of which Derrida is deprived, from which he is circum-cut. But this very deprivation or de-materialization renders Derrida’s prayer an even more radical one, belonging to a more spectral “faith”, to the spirituality of a radical theology, to a theology of the event, by which traditional spirituality is both nourished and inwardly disturbed. |
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ISSN: | 2077-1444 |
Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Religions
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3390/rel12090679 |