God Without Being

Hors-Texte, Second Edition

Jean-Luc Marion, Thomas A. Carlson

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Year: 2012
• ISBN:
  9780226505664
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

Jean-Luc Marion is one of the world's foremost philosophers of religion as well as one of the leading Catholic thinkers of modern times. In God Without Being, Marion challenges a fundamental premise of traditional philosophy, theology, and metaphysics: that God, before all else, must be. Taking a characteristically postmodern stance and engaging in passionate dialogue with Heidegger, he locates a "God without Being" in the realm of agape, or Christian charity and love. If God is love, Marion contends, then God loves before he actually is.

First translated into English in 1991, God Without Being continues to be a key book for discussions of the nature of God. This second edition contains a new preface by Marion as well as his 2003 essay on Thomas Aquinas. Offering a controversial, contemporary perspective, God Without Being will remain essential reading for scholars and students of philosophy and religion. "Daring and profound.... In matters most central to his thesis, [Marion]'s control is admirable, and his attunement to the nuances of other major postmodern thinkers is impressive."— Theological Studies "A truly remarkable work."— First Things "Very rewarding reading."— Religious Studies Review

INDEX

abandon: abandonment and, 98–99; and donation, pardon, 100; endurance of, 197; giving with, 48; Paschal and, 195; reception of, 24; where G

d speaks in our speech, 143–44

Abraham, 82, 86–87

absence, 124, 137, 150

absolute knowledge, 23, 190, 192, 195, 267n15

Abweisung (repulsion), 117, 259n10

accidents, 163, 164

accidia, 135

Achilles, 17

ackeiropoiēsis, 21

Acts 6:50, 197

Acts 6:59, 197

Acts 7:55, 197

Acts 11:26, 195

Acts 14:15, 135

Acts 17:25, 100

Acts 17:27, 256n75

Acts 17:28, xxii, 100

actus essendi, 201, 226–27, 233, 236

Adam, first and second, 122

Adonai, 190

adoration, 167–68, 239n10

ad-pearance (ad-parence), 239n17

advent: aura of God’s, 46; of Being, 41; distinguished from permanence, 172; eschatological, 173; mode of, 174; of the referent, 147

Aegidius of Rome, 208

aesthetics, 20

Aeterni Patris, xxiv

affirmation, 57, 58, 116

agapē: agathon and, 253n52; and Being, 83, 109; and Christ, xxiv, 107, 135; and distance, 111; and God/G

d, 47–48, 82; hyperbolic, 106; icon of, 110; inaccessibility of, 119; and ontological difference, 136, 138; and ousia, 134–35. as pure given, xxvi; and sin, 108; surpasses knowledge, 108; tēs alētheias and, 196; and zētein, 256–57n75

agathon, 74, 252n47, 253n52

agnosticism, 107

Agrippa of Nettesheim, 261n26

aim: basis of idol, 20, 42; and Being, 110; and Dasein, 28, 43; end of, 26–27; exchange of aims, 100; excludes das Mystische, 59; and the gaze, 11; impossibility of, 48; of the less than nothing, 77; limits of, 28, 69; of melancholy’s gaze, 133; of possession, 99–100; as preliminary of thought, 51; and referent, 146

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