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Transforming the Theological Turn

Phenomenology with Emmanuel Falque

Edited by Martin Koci and Jason Alvis

Continental philosophers of religion have been engaging with theological issues, concepts and questions for several decades, blurring the borders between the domains of philosophy and theology. Yet when Emmanuel Falque proclaims that both theologians and philosophers need not be afraid of crossing the Rubicon – the point of no return – between these often artificially separated disciplines, he scandalised both camps.

Despite the scholarly reservations, the theological turn in French phenomenology has decisively happened. The challenge is now to interpret what this given fact of creative encounters between philosophy and theology means for these disciplines.

In this collection, written by both theologians and philosophers, the question “Must we cross the Rubicon?” is central. However, rather than simply opposing or subscribing to Falque’s position, the individual chapters of this book interrogate and critically reflect on the relationship between theology and philosophy, offering novel perspectives and redrawing the outlines of their borderlands.
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International
Pages: 264 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9
978-1-78661-622-7 • Hardback • October 2020 • $152.00 • (£117.00)
978-1-5381-4834-1 • Paperback • November 2022 • $38.00 • (£30.00)
978-1-78661-623-4 • eBook • October 2020 • $36.00 • (£30.00)
Series: Reframing Continental Philosophy of Religion
Subjects: Philosophy / Movements / Phenomenology, Philosophy / Continental Philosophy, Religion / Philosophy
Martin Koci is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Vienna.

Jason Alvis is a Research Fellow and External Lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Vienna.

Foreword

  1. Richard Kearney (Boston College)


Introduction

  1. Martin Koci and Jason W. Alvis (University of Vienna), Transgressing the Boundaries: Introducing Emmanuel Falque



I. Interpreting Emmanuel Falque

  1. Emmanuel Falque (Institut Catholique de Paris), Philosophy and Theology: New Boundaries
  2. Bruce Ellis Benson (St Andrews), Where is the Philosophical/Theological Rubicon?: Toward a Radical Rethinking of “Religion”
  3. Jakub Čapek (Charles University, Prague), Philosophy and Theology: What Happens When We Cross the Boundary?
  4. William C. Woody (Boston College), Foreign Exchange or Hostile Incursion
  5. Tamsin Jones (Trinity College Hartford), The Geography of the Rubicon: Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies in the American Context



II. Emmanuel Falque in Comparison

  1. William L. Connelly (Institut Catholique de Paris), At the Confluence of Phenomenology and Non-Phenomenology: Maurice Blondel and Emmanuel Falque
  2. Katerina Kočí (Charles University, Prague), A Friendly Tussle between Hermeneutics and Phenomenology: From Ricoeur to Falque and Beyond
  3. Lorenza Bottacin Cantoni (University of Padova), Hoc est corpus meum: Kenosis, Responsibility and the Ethics of the Spread Body between Levinas and Falque
  4. Francesca Peruzzotti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Milano), God’s word and the human word. Philosophy and theology in Emmanuel Falque’s phenomenology



III. Constructive-Critical Engagements

  1. Carla Canullo (University of Macerata), Oportet transire: How “Crossing” becomes a questio de homine
  2. Andrew Sackin-Poll (University of Cambridge), Phenomenology and the Metaphysics of Conversion
  3. Barnabas Asprey (University of Cambridge), Transforming Heideggerian Finitude? Following Pathways Opened by Emmanuel Falque
  4. Victor Emma-Adamah (University of Cambridge), The Sense of Finitude: A Blondelian Engagement
  5. Steven DeLay (Woolf University), The Power at Work Within Us


Conclusion

  1. Emmanuel Falque, To Die of Not Writing
To be introduced to Emmanuel Falque, to be led into his thinking and his writing: this is an event that no student of phenomenology, especially in its theological frame, should miss. Here one finds Falque read, compared and engaged, and here one finds much to ponder about the current state of our thinking about philosophy, theology, and their mutual relations.
— Kevin Hart, Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Studies, University of Virginia


Transforming the Theological Turn

Phenomenology with Emmanuel Falque

Cover Image
Hardback
Paperback
eBook
Summary
Summary
  • Continental philosophers of religion have been engaging with theological issues, concepts and questions for several decades, blurring the borders between the domains of philosophy and theology. Yet when Emmanuel Falque proclaims that both theologians and philosophers need not be afraid of crossing the Rubicon – the point of no return – between these often artificially separated disciplines, he scandalised both camps.

    Despite the scholarly reservations, the theological turn in French phenomenology has decisively happened. The challenge is now to interpret what this given fact of creative encounters between philosophy and theology means for these disciplines.

    In this collection, written by both theologians and philosophers, the question “Must we cross the Rubicon?” is central. However, rather than simply opposing or subscribing to Falque’s position, the individual chapters of this book interrogate and critically reflect on the relationship between theology and philosophy, offering novel perspectives and redrawing the outlines of their borderlands.
Details
Details
  • Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International
    Pages: 264 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9
    978-1-78661-622-7 • Hardback • October 2020 • $152.00 • (£117.00)
    978-1-5381-4834-1 • Paperback • November 2022 • $38.00 • (£30.00)
    978-1-78661-623-4 • eBook • October 2020 • $36.00 • (£30.00)
    Series: Reframing Continental Philosophy of Religion
    Subjects: Philosophy / Movements / Phenomenology, Philosophy / Continental Philosophy, Religion / Philosophy
Author
Author
  • Martin Koci is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Vienna.

    Jason Alvis is a Research Fellow and External Lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Vienna.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Foreword

    1. Richard Kearney (Boston College)


    Introduction

    1. Martin Koci and Jason W. Alvis (University of Vienna), Transgressing the Boundaries: Introducing Emmanuel Falque



    I. Interpreting Emmanuel Falque

    1. Emmanuel Falque (Institut Catholique de Paris), Philosophy and Theology: New Boundaries
    2. Bruce Ellis Benson (St Andrews), Where is the Philosophical/Theological Rubicon?: Toward a Radical Rethinking of “Religion”
    3. Jakub Čapek (Charles University, Prague), Philosophy and Theology: What Happens When We Cross the Boundary?
    4. William C. Woody (Boston College), Foreign Exchange or Hostile Incursion
    5. Tamsin Jones (Trinity College Hartford), The Geography of the Rubicon: Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies in the American Context



    II. Emmanuel Falque in Comparison

    1. William L. Connelly (Institut Catholique de Paris), At the Confluence of Phenomenology and Non-Phenomenology: Maurice Blondel and Emmanuel Falque
    2. Katerina Kočí (Charles University, Prague), A Friendly Tussle between Hermeneutics and Phenomenology: From Ricoeur to Falque and Beyond
    3. Lorenza Bottacin Cantoni (University of Padova), Hoc est corpus meum: Kenosis, Responsibility and the Ethics of the Spread Body between Levinas and Falque
    4. Francesca Peruzzotti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Milano), God’s word and the human word. Philosophy and theology in Emmanuel Falque’s phenomenology



    III. Constructive-Critical Engagements

    1. Carla Canullo (University of Macerata), Oportet transire: How “Crossing” becomes a questio de homine
    2. Andrew Sackin-Poll (University of Cambridge), Phenomenology and the Metaphysics of Conversion
    3. Barnabas Asprey (University of Cambridge), Transforming Heideggerian Finitude? Following Pathways Opened by Emmanuel Falque
    4. Victor Emma-Adamah (University of Cambridge), The Sense of Finitude: A Blondelian Engagement
    5. Steven DeLay (Woolf University), The Power at Work Within Us


    Conclusion

    1. Emmanuel Falque, To Die of Not Writing
Reviews
Reviews
  • To be introduced to Emmanuel Falque, to be led into his thinking and his writing: this is an event that no student of phenomenology, especially in its theological frame, should miss. Here one finds Falque read, compared and engaged, and here one finds much to ponder about the current state of our thinking about philosophy, theology, and their mutual relations.
    — Kevin Hart, Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Studies, University of Virginia


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