Affective theology, theological affectivity

Religious Experience and the End of Metaphysics

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 94-105

  Peperzak, Adriaan T ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

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1. In my essay "Philosophy-Religion-Theology" (International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 25 [2001]: 1-11), I try to show that, on the contrary, philosophy cannot separate itself from the religious dimension.
2. I base the foregoing on previous developments in my book Platonic Transformations: With and After Hegel, Heidegger, and Levinas (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997), pp. 189-204
3. and my essay "L'addresse de la lettre", in M. M. Olivetti, ed., Religione, Parola, Scrittura (Padova: CEDAM, 1992), pp. 145-56.
4. See my "Provocation: Can God Speak Within the Limits of Philosophy? Should Philosophers Speak to God", in M. M. Olivetti, ed., Intersubjectivity and Philosophical Theology (Padova: CEDAM, 2001).
5. Though Aristotle, in Meta Γ (1003a33) focuses on the plurality of manners in which being appears for our legein (saying), the various ways in which it surprises our feeling and hearing should not be neglected. Being is also differently felt, heard, smelled (etc.), to be.
6. Cf. Peperzak, Platonic Transformations, pp. 11-14, 88-93, 104-106, 133-45.
7. Aristotle, Meta Δ (XII, 7, 1072b3).
8. Cf. Gregory of Nyssa, Life of Moses II, 163.
9. Bonaventure, Itinerarium mentis in Deum I, 5.
10. G. W. F. Hegel, Gesammelte Werke, vol. 4 (Hamburg: F. Meiner, 1968), p. 64.
11. E.g., St. Augustine, Soliloquia I, 7.