https://t.co/cAbxk27Y4H
Clifton Stringer offers a very thoughtful review in Modern Theology of the recent Jean-Yves Lacoste volume to which I contributed a chapter. The portion of the review quoted below particularly caught my attention.
"DeLay would find common cause with [Kevin Hart’s] and Lacoste’s approach to irreducible phenomena, and DeLay throws down a gem of particularly theological and revelational provocation in this regard:
'For if the goal of phenomenology is to describe our experiences exactly as they are, without ever altering them, and so adhering to a “Hands-off Principle” in doing so, an adequate description of the advent of God to consciousness must acknowledge that the phenomenon at stake is a revelation, the meaning of which consists precisely in God’s making himself known, and thus a fortiori really existing. … To bracket the transcendent reality of God when attempting to describe the appearing would alter its fundamental dimension: namely, that it discloses us essentially to be someone whose form of existence, whether we had till then realized it or not, is that of being-before-God. … When considering the question of who I am essentially, ignoring the fact of God’s existence would not be to disregard an item of irrelevance, but to miss its most indispensable dimension.'
St. Bonaventure could not agree more."
Thank you, thank you, thank you Dr @Tanyaalih for your courage, passion and eloquence.
Watch EVERY MINUTE of this extraordinary interview about the grotesque murder of 9 siblings in Gaza.
I just don't know how she holds it together. /1
"God is neither visible to the eyes nor readily accessible to the senses. It is to this nonexperience of God that Lacoste's phenomenology increasingly turns."
—@jschrijversj & @koci_martin
Read the full excerpt: https://t.co/n0zUerYT0I.
@rcbregman This is too much, rutger. Your elites will need to connect with the electorate. Moral ambition is one thing. Talking to the people is something entirely other.