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EYES WIDE SHUT: A RESPONSE TO JEAN‐LUC MARION's ACCOUNT OF THE JOURNEY TO EMMAUS
Author(s) -
MACKINLAY SHANE
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
modern theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.144
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1468-0025
pISSN - 0266-7177
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0025.2004.00261.x
Subject(s) - revelation , faith , interpretation (philosophy) , existentialism , meaning (existential) , philosophy , gospel , theology , epistemology , linguistics
In “ ‘They Recognised Him; and He Became Invisible to Them’ ” ( Modern Theology , Vol. 18 no. 2 April 2002, pp. 145–152), Marion uses the gospel account of the journey to Emmaus to argue that faith provides a conceptual interpretation of revelation after it has occurred. This response to Marion argues that what he describes is only a derivative sense of faith. In its primary sense, faith is hermeneutic; faith is an existential commitment that makes it possible for revelation to be made manifest. Contra Marion, revelation does not simply impose itself on us; rather, it must be actively received and recognised in the meaning‐filled world of a recipient's faith.