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Piotr Karpiński
This article discusses the issue of God in the thought of Jean-Luc Marion. The theological topic is, next to Cartesianism and phenomenology, the main subject of this author’s research. Marion takes the issue of God in opposition to metaphysical approaches. Onto-theology is a form of conceptual idolatry, i.e. describing God with the use of human standards. In lieu of this, Marion proposes God’s phenomenology, that is, meditating on him starting from him, accepting how he gives himself to us. This phenomenological approach leads the philosopher to the concept of “God without being” – God is not a being but love and a gift. The abolition of concepts related to the being in philosophical reflection on God should have a similar place in theology. Also theology should not consider God as a being, but rather starting from him. In this perspective, theology has to deal with the text, and thus becomes hermeneutics. However, that does not mean getting to the sense of the text, but to its referent, that is Jesus Christ. The most appropriate place for theology becomes the Eucharist, because in it the Word allows itself to be recognized and speaks itself. Eucharistic theology is not an academic science but a celebration, and the theologian is a saint.
