Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion
February 13, 2025
Anne Devarieux, Victor Emma-Adamah
Why do we still persist today in describing Maine de Biran’s thought as “spiritualist,” even though it sets materialism and spiritualism back-to-back as speculative systems – already present in embryonic form within Cartesian doctrine – that run counter to inner experience and the true science of humankind? This article revisits the genesis of the discovery of a force that, according to its...
Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion
May 16, 2024
Brett Carollo
This paper argues that Friedrich Nietzsche was a mystic and that his post-Gay Science (1882) thought should be understood as an unfolding expression of his mystical experiences. Drawing on Nietzsche’s Nachlass (notes), letters, and published writings, I show that he undoubtedly had at least two major mystical experiences and that these experiences were the source of all the cardinal motifs of...
Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion
May 16, 2024
Tamsin Jones
This essay brings theology and phenomenology together in order to explore the role of contemplative practices in the reception of revelation. The essay begins with Jean-Luc Marion’s phenomenological account of revelation and subsequently considers the dynamics of revelation in the context of mystical and liturgical experience. Challenging the understanding of the reception of revelation as a...
Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion
April 8, 2022
Matías Ignacio Pizzi
Abstract The main goal of this paper is to analyze Nicholas of Cusa’s reading on the dispute of Mystical Theology through Jean-Luc Marion’s phenomenology of givenness. To do this, first of all, we will address the analyses offered by Jean-Luc Marion on the problem of affectivity. Secondly, we examine Nicholas’ interpretation of Mystical Theology through the aenigma of the eicona dei in De...
Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion
October 28, 2021
Dylan S. Bailey
In this paper, I use a comparative analysis of mysticism in Zen and the Abrahamic faiths to formulate a phenomenological account of mysticism “as such.” I argue that, while Zen Buddhism is distinct from other forms of mystical experience in important ways, it can still be fit into a general phenomenological category of mystical experience. First, I explicate the phenomenological accounts of...
Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion
October 28, 2021
Adi Burton, Samuel D. Rocha
In this essay, the authors explore the phenomenon of utterance we find in speech and teaching. Jean-Luc Marion’s third phenomenological reduction serves as a methodological foundation for this exploration which moves through Biblical literature and autobiography – both centred on the story of the election of Samuel – before leading into a meditation on the Call of and Response to the Other. The...