Christian Phenomenology

Abstract

Christian phenomenology is irreducible to philosophical phenomenology. It begins by considering the testimony of Scripture, especially what is said about “world” and “kingdom,” and attends, in particular, to the parables of Jesus. Accordingly, Hart proposes the idea of a Basilaic reduction, which is not a movement inwards, as one finds from Augustine to Husserl, but rather a passage from “world” to “kingdom.” The philosophical questions “what?” and “why?” give way to the phenomenological question “how?” Christian phenomenology is about passing to the question “how?” in the sense of “How am I to live so as to please the Father of Jesus?”