RT Article
T1 Stylizations of Being: Attention as an Existential Hub in Heidegger and Christian Mysticism
JF Open theology
VO 6
IS 1
SP 206
OP 220
A1 Palmeirim, Bernardo Manzoni
LA English
PB De Gruyter
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1830006797
AB The assimilation of phenomenology by theology (namely of Heidegger by Karl Rahner) exemplifies how a pre-existing philosophical framework can be imported into a theological system by being suffused with belief. Although one would imagine that the incommensurability between philosophy and religion would thus be overcome, the two disciplines risk to remain, given the sequels of the ‘French debate’, worlds apart, separated by a leap of faith. In this paper I attempt to uncover what grammatical similitudes afforded Rahner formal transference in the first place. Uncovering analogous uses of contemplative attention, namely between Heidegger and Simone Weil, I hope to demonstrate the filial relationship between existential phenomenology and Christian mysticism. I propose that attention is a key factor in both systems of thought. Furthermore, I propose that: 1) attention, the existential hub between subject and phenomena, provides a base for investigating methodologies , as opposed to causal relations, in philosophy and religion; 2) that the two attentional disciplines of meditation and contemplation, spiritual practices designed to shape the self, also constitute styles of thinking; and 3) the ‘turn’ in the later Heidegger’s philosophy is a strategic point to inquire into this confluence of styles of thinking, evincing the constantly dynamic and intrinsically tight relation between philosophy and theology.
K1 Contemplation
K1 Husserl
K1 Jean-Luc Marion
K1 Jean-Luc Nancy
K1 Karl Rahner
K1 Simone Weil
K1 Stoicism
K1 Existential phenomenology
K1 Meditation
DO 10.1515/opth-2020-0018