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# Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and Scripture: Marion, Henry, and Falque on the Person of Christ.

            Christina Gschwandtner

               January 1, 2018

                 |  doi.org/10.17613/smpdg-grz51

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Scriptural passages make a surprising appearance at many crucial points in the philosophical explications of several contemporary thinkers. All of the current religiously inflected phenomenologists have recourse to it or discuss it as a theme: most prominently Michel Henry in Paroles du Christ and Jean-Louis Chrétien in Under the Gaze of the Bible, which are both posited as philosophical readings of Scripture.1 But even when Scripture is not specifically the topic under investigation, examples are often drawn from it in order to illustrate or even prove a point. This is especially true of Jean-Luc Marion who frequently has recourse to biblical passages in order to articulate a phenomenological point: the prodigal son in God without Being, 2 the account of the annunciation in his essay on God as the impossible, the calling of St. Matthew in Being Given, 3 and the sacrifice of Isaac in Negative Certainties.4 Similarly, Emmanuel Falque in his trilogy on the Paschal Triduum often cites Sc

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