This study examines the methodological relevance of Jean-Luc Marion’s hermeneutics of charity to religious pluralism and interreligious dialogue. Grounded in his phenomenology of givenness, Marion’s framework challenges traditional interpretative paradigms by demonstrating that interpreters lack total epistemic control over a text. This limitation arises because the text maintains an...
Can we know God? If so, how? This essay considers Bernard Lonergan’s thoughts on God’s inner and outer Words (the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ) and how they are received in human consciousness. It applies these two ways of knowing God to two theologians who each emphasized one of these Words: Meister Eckhart, a medieval, Neoplatonic monk, who focused on union with the inner Word, and Eberhard...