God Who Comes to Mind: Emmanuel Levinas as Inspiration and Challenge for Theological Thinking

IF 0.3 0 RELIGION Open Theology Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.1515/opth-2020-0189
Jakub Sirovátka
{"title":"God Who Comes to Mind: Emmanuel Levinas as Inspiration and Challenge for Theological Thinking","authors":"Jakub Sirovátka","doi":"10.1515/opth-2020-0189","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract From the beginning, Levinas’ thought was received not only by philosophers but also by theologians. But his thought is very radical and represents both a challenge and an inspiration for theology. The article aims to see where the challenge and inspiration might lie. Levinas’s basic question is how finite thought can think an infinite and transcendent God. Levinas develops the phenomenology of the Idea of the Infinite and interprets Descartes’ idea of God as a practical desire. For Levinas, the relation to God is intrinsically linked to the relation to the Other. It is an attempt to characterize an autonomous ethical subjectivity whose autonomy, however, does not begin with the subject but in the Other, in whom the presence of God is always already manifest. This description of the subject corresponds to the human being as understood in Christian theology.","PeriodicalId":42436,"journal":{"name":"Open Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Open Theology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1515/opth-2020-0189","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"RELIGION","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0

Abstract

Abstract From the beginning, Levinas’ thought was received not only by philosophers but also by theologians. But his thought is very radical and represents both a challenge and an inspiration for theology. The article aims to see where the challenge and inspiration might lie. Levinas’s basic question is how finite thought can think an infinite and transcendent God. Levinas develops the phenomenology of the Idea of the Infinite and interprets Descartes’ idea of God as a practical desire. For Levinas, the relation to God is intrinsically linked to the relation to the Other. It is an attempt to characterize an autonomous ethical subjectivity whose autonomy, however, does not begin with the subject but in the Other, in whom the presence of God is always already manifest. This description of the subject corresponds to the human being as understood in Christian theology.
查看原文
分享 分享
微信好友 朋友圈 QQ好友 复制链接
本刊更多论文
浮现在脑海中的上帝:以马纽埃尔·列维纳斯对神学思想的启示与挑战
列维纳斯的思想从一开始就不仅为哲学家所接受,也为神学家所接受。但他的思想非常激进,对神学既是一种挑战,也是一种启发。本文旨在了解挑战和灵感可能在哪里。列维纳斯的基本问题是,有限的思维如何能够思考一个无限和超越的上帝。列维纳斯发展了无限观念的现象学,并将笛卡儿的上帝观念解释为一种实际的欲望。对列维纳斯来说,与上帝的关系与与他者的关系有着内在的联系。它试图描述一种自主的伦理主体性,然而,这种主体性并不始于主体,而是始于大他者,在大他者身上,上帝的存在总是已经显现出来了。这种对主题的描述与基督教神学中所理解的人是一致的。
本文章由计算机程序翻译,如有差异,请以英文原文为准。
求助全文
约1分钟内获得全文 去求助
来源期刊
Open Theology
Open Theology RELIGION-
CiteScore
1.00
自引率
0.00%
发文量
23
审稿时长
15 weeks
期刊介绍: Open Theology is an international Open Access, peer-reviewed academic journal that welcomes contributions written in English addressing religion in its various forms and aspects: historical, theological, sociological, psychological, and other. The journal encompasses all major disciplines of Theology and Religious Studies, presenting doctrine, history, organization and everyday life of various types of religious groups and the relations between them. We publish articles from the field of Theology as well as Philosophy, Sociology and Psychology of Religion and also dialogue between Religion and Science. The Open Theology does not present views of any particular theological school nor of a particular religious organization. The contributions are written by researchers who represent different religious views. The authors present their research concerning the old religious traditions as well as new religious movements. The aim of the journal is to promote an international and interdisciplinary dialogue in the field of Theology and Religious Studies. The journal seeks also to provide researchers, pastors and other interested persons with the fruits of academic studies.
期刊最新文献
“Teachers of Good Things”: Origen on Women as Teachers Constructive After Systematic? On Doing Theology in South Africa Today Blood Lines: Biopolitics, Patriarchy, Myth A Militant Bride: Gender-Loaded Metaphors in Jerome’s Writings to Ascetic Men and Women “The Remedy for a World Without Transcendence”: Georges Bataille on Sacrifice and the Theology of Transgression
×
引用
GB/T 7714-2015
复制
MLA
复制
APA
复制
导出至
BibTeX EndNote RefMan NoteFirst NoteExpress
×
×
提示
您的信息不完整,为了账户安全,请先补充。
现在去补充
×
提示
您因"违规操作"
具体请查看互助需知
我知道了
×
提示
现在去查看 取消
×
提示
确定
0
微信
客服QQ
Book学术公众号 扫码关注我们
反馈
×
意见反馈
请填写您的意见或建议
请填写您的手机或邮箱
已复制链接
已复制链接
快去分享给好友吧!
我知道了
×
扫码分享
扫码分享
Book学术官方微信
Book学术文献互助
Book学术文献互助群
群 号:481959085
Book学术
文献互助 智能选刊 最新文献 互助须知 联系我们:info@booksci.cn
Book学术提供免费学术资源搜索服务,方便国内外学者检索中英文文献。致力于提供最便捷和优质的服务体验。
Copyright © 2023 Book学术 All rights reserved.
ghs 京公网安备 11010802042870号 京ICP备2023020795号-1