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."āTheological Studies
abandon: abandonment and, 98ā99; and donation, pardon, 100; endurance of, 197; giving with, 48; Paschal and, 195; reception of, 24; where G
d speaks in our speech, 143ā44
Abraham, 82, 86ā87
absence, 124, 137, 150
absolute knowledge, 23, 190, 192, 195, 267n15
Abweisung (repulsion), 117, 259n10
accidents, 163, 164
accidia, 135
Achilles, 17
ackeiropoiÄsis, 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, 226ā27, 233, 236
Adam, first and second, 122
Adonai, 190
adoration, 167ā68, 239n10
ad-pearance (ad-parence), 239n17
advent: aura of Godās, 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
agapÄ: agathon and, 253n52; and Being, 83, 109; and Christ, xxiv, 107, 135; and distance, 111; and God/G
d, 47ā48, 82; hyperbolic, 106; icon of, 110; inaccessibility of, 119; and ontological difference, 136, 138; and ousia, 134ā35. as pure given, xxvi; and sin, 108; surpasses knowledge, 108; tÄs alÄtheias and, 196; and zÄtein, 256ā57n75
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, 26ā27; 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 melancholyās gaze, 133; of possession, 99ā100; as preliminary of thought, 51; and referent, 146
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Table of contents
Cover
Copyright
Title Page
Series Page
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
Translatorās Acknowledgments
Preface to the English Edition (1991)
Preface to the Second Edition (2012)
Envoi
God Without Being
Hors-Texte
Notes
English-Language Editions Cited
Sources
Index
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