CONSIDERING THE CONCEPTS OF GOD AND HUMAN BEING IN A PHENOMENOLOGY OF PRAYER

Abstract

ion from silent praying Chretien focuses on praying aloud facilitates the integration of prayer in the overarching theme of human speech. In his phenomenology of speech, Chretien defines human speaking as a response to a divine call. This call is always stronger than its response, and can never be met correspondingly. This excess of the call over the response is related to the process of creation. God, in his call, calls into being. The hearing of this calling is entering into being. 15 The gerunds in the former sentence underline the immediacy of calling hearing being. Calling implies being heard and coming to being. In this thinking structure, being is already a