{"title":"JACQUES DERRIDA AND ABRAHAM'S HERITAGE","authors":"Silvia Geraci","doi":"10.2143/BIJ.72.3.2141834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/BIJ.72.3.2141834","url":null,"abstract":"Although a great many studies have stressed the relationship between the thought of Jacques Derrida, Judaism and Christianity, they have too often misunderstood the issue under scrutiny: Derrida has been portrayed as a dangerous nihilist and atheist, 1 or, on the contrary, as a masked and irrational cabbalist,2 a mystic theologian3 and even as a secret believer who finally confessed his 'religious' faith in some autobiographical texts.4","PeriodicalId":80655,"journal":{"name":"Bijdragen tijdschrift voor filosofie en theologie","volume":"72 1","pages":"246 - 264"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/BIJ.72.3.2141834","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67910496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE VULNERABILITY OF THE BODY","authors":"E. de Clercq","doi":"10.2143/BIJ.72.2.2131109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/BIJ.72.2.2131109","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80655,"journal":{"name":"Bijdragen tijdschrift voor filosofie en theologie","volume":"72 1","pages":"183 - 200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/BIJ.72.2.2131109","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67910574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PROLONGING THE ITINERARY OF MEANING","authors":"M. Cheung","doi":"10.2143/BIJ.72.4.2152701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/BIJ.72.4.2152701","url":null,"abstract":"It is true that Christians regard the Bible as the foundational text for their practice in life, but how can Christians say that their practices are biblically informed without falling into the pitfall of fundamentalism, while still admitting the relevance of the whole Bible in our contemporary world? Moreover, is it possible that biblically informed actions be meaningful not only for Christian communities but also to society in general? With the help of the paradigm of the parable, I would like to show how the appropriation of the biblical text in Christian praxis can be understood as embedding it in their life-narratives. In this way, the biblical text, rather than being taken literally, as in fundamentalist interpretations, is parabolized through an intertextual interpretation which involves an exchange of meaning with the socio-cultural context of the Christian reader. One of the contemporary thinkers who has written extensively on hermeneutics is Paul Ricoeur. He has done significant work on the interpretation of both biblical texts and human action. In this article, I do not aim at giving an overall evaluation of Ricoeur' s various approaches to biblical hermeneutics but try to point out how his work on the parable and the imagination may shed light on a specific problem of Christian praxis that of the appropriation of the Bible in Christian action. 1 To this aim I will bring together two areas of Ricoeur's","PeriodicalId":80655,"journal":{"name":"Bijdragen tijdschrift voor filosofie en theologie","volume":"72 1","pages":"361 - 381"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/BIJ.72.4.2152701","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67911070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TOWARDS A DERRIDEAN SPIRITUALITY","authors":"Rico Sneller","doi":"10.2143/BIJ.72.3.2141837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/BIJ.72.3.2141837","url":null,"abstract":"Indeed, each and every body is a letter, and a distinguishing sign for one who perceives, so that by their means one may recognise God and His enactments. Every letter is a wonder and a sign and a proof that instructs us as regards the effluence of the Name which causes dibbur [speech] to overflow through its means; and thus, the entire world and all years and all souls are full of letters. Abulafia, Sefer Otsar Eden Ganuz And the one who apprehends the contemplation of the letters will contemplate themas though they speak with him. Abulafia, Sefer ha-Chesheq Ce qui entame le mouvement de Ia signification, c'est ce qui en rend !'interruption impossible. La chose meme est un signe. J. Derrida, De Ia grammatologie L'ordre alphabetique est lui-meme aveugle, on ne peut lui faire confiance qu'en aveugle, par un acte de foi, meme si [ ... ] on ecrit pour lui rendre du sens et, si on peut dire, lui donner raison. J. Derrida and S. Fathy, Tourner le mots. Au bord d'unfilm","PeriodicalId":80655,"journal":{"name":"Bijdragen tijdschrift voor filosofie en theologie","volume":"72 1","pages":"298 - 321"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/BIJ.72.3.2141837","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67911444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HOMER ON COMPETITION","authors":"G. V. Coillie","doi":"10.2143/BIJ.71.2.2051600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/BIJ.71.2.2051600","url":null,"abstract":"1 Cf. Nietzsche 1996b, 317: “[A]ny Russian book – above all Dostoevsky (translated into French, for heaven’s sake not German!) – I count among my greatest moments of pleasurable relief.” 2 Stendhal 2002, 103: “Ah! he cried, Napoleon truly was the man sent by God for the youth of France! Who will take his place?” – Hegel 1984, 114: “I saw the Emperor – this world-soul – riding out of the city on reconnaissance. It is indeed a wonderful sensation to see an individual, who, concentrated here at a single point, astride a horse, reaches out over the world and masters it.” HOMER ON COMPETITION","PeriodicalId":80655,"journal":{"name":"Bijdragen tijdschrift voor filosofie en theologie","volume":"71 1","pages":"115-131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/BIJ.71.2.2051600","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67905861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"WAAROM ERGEREN THEOLOGEN ZICH AAN JOHN HICK?","authors":"M. Moyaert","doi":"10.2143/BIJ.71.2.2051602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/BIJ.71.2.2051602","url":null,"abstract":"John Hicks pluralistische hypothese, die uitgaat van de gelijkwaardigheid van de verschillende religieuze tradities, geniet nog steeds veel weerklank, vooral in interreligieuze milieus. Toch heeft Hick ook veel kritiek gekregen. Hij heeft met zijn pluralistische hypothese een gevoelige snaar geraakt. Vooral theologen ergeren zich aan Hicks pluralismethese. Dit artikel stelt de vraag vanwaar deze ergernis? Waarom zijn theologen zo ontstemd over deze godsdienstfilosoof? Hoe kunnen we de polemiek die rond Hicks pluralismethese is ontstaan, verklaren? 1 In dit artikel suggereer ik dat de controverse rond de pluralismethese verband houdt met de wijze waarop Hick zijn godsdienstfilosofische reflecties theologisch doordenkt. Er schort iets, zo luidt althans mijn stelling, aan de wijze waarop hij de rolverdeling tussen filosofie en theologie opvat. Ik beschouw Hick in deze bijdrage als een prototype om de verhouding tussen filosofie en theologie te doordenken.","PeriodicalId":80655,"journal":{"name":"Bijdragen tijdschrift voor filosofie en theologie","volume":"71 1","pages":"159 - 179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/BIJ.71.2.2051602","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67905988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AUTHENTICITY—THE VIEW FROM WITHIN","authors":"R. Welten","doi":"10.2143/BIJ.71.2.2051604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/BIJ.71.2.2051604","url":null,"abstract":"In this contribution I wish to attempt a radical phenomenological elucidation of the notion of authenticity. In order to elaborate on the highly problematic philosophical idea of authenticity, I will make use of the philosophy of the French philosopher Michel Henry (1922-2002). Although Henry does not make use of the term as such, it is his understanding of the Self as self-affection that makes a real philosophy of authenticity not only possible, but also inevitable. Following this line of thought, I will maintain that Michel Henry's philosophy is a philosophy of authenticity. Since there is, as we shall see, the original experience of the Self, an original experience of life as self-affection, this primal experience appeals us not to renounce our origin. The authentic sphere as described in Henry's works is called Life. I will discuss first Henry's phenomenology as a radicalisation of classical phenomenology, in which the appeal for authenticity is explicit. Then I will focus on Henry's idea of the notion of the Self and how this notion escapes the problem of everlasting selfreference. In the last paragraph I will focus on a possible Henrian comprehension of the authentic life. I will also question the role of Christianity in his later works. Is the Christian life the authentic Life? And if so, what does that imply?","PeriodicalId":80655,"journal":{"name":"Bijdragen tijdschrift voor filosofie en theologie","volume":"9 1","pages":"197 - 217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/BIJ.71.2.2051604","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67906063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Beentjes, A.E.T. Smeets, Th. Bell, R. Faesen, T. Meijers, E. Koster, P. Lošonczi, H. Rikhof
{"title":"BOOKREVIEWS","authors":"P. Beentjes, A.E.T. Smeets, Th. Bell, R. Faesen, T. Meijers, E. Koster, P. Lošonczi, H. Rikhof","doi":"10.2143/BIJ.71.2.2051606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/BIJ.71.2.2051606","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80655,"journal":{"name":"Bijdragen tijdschrift voor filosofie en theologie","volume":"71 1","pages":"220 - 231"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/BIJ.71.2.2051606","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67906681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BOOKS REVIEWED","authors":"Bernhard von Clairvaux","doi":"10.2143/bij.71.2.2051607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/bij.71.2.2051607","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80655,"journal":{"name":"Bijdragen tijdschrift voor filosofie en theologie","volume":"71 1","pages":"232 - 232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/bij.71.2.2051607","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67906804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}