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A Critical Review Of Michael Purcell's Theological Development Of Levinas' Philosophy

A Critical Review Of Michael Purcell's Theological Development Of Levinas' Philosophy Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia In the recent study of Mystery and Method: The Other in Rahner and Levinas,1 Michael Purcell2 has attempted to engage the philosophy of Levinas3 with the theology of Karl Rahner. He begins with a programmatic statement: we want to try to advance Karl Rahner and Emmanuel Levinas along the narrow way of convergence. We want to let the thought of Rahner and Levinas speak, as it were, in each other’s time in order to recognize, despite their differences something of each other in the other, to recognize primarily the significance of the Other in what each of them says.4 The key consideration is the ethical-theological significance of the Other, where the ethical is influenced by the theological and the theological grounded in the ethical. Levinas affirms that philosophy is ‘the wisdom of love in the service of love’.5 Purcell contends that this is also the case with theology due to its practical and ethical concerns. He wishes, therefore, to show how Levinas and Rahner’s philosophical and theological writings complement each other. He does this for two ‘principal reasons’.6 Consider the first of his main reasons for embarking on this project. Firstly, we want http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Heythrop Journal Wiley

A Critical Review Of Michael Purcell's Theological Development Of Levinas' Philosophy

Morrison, Glenn
The Heythrop Journal , Volume 44 (2) – Apr 1, 2003
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Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia In the recent study of Mystery and Method: The Other in Rahner and Levinas,1 Michael Purcell2 has attempted to engage the philosophy of Levinas3 with the theology of Karl Rahner. He begins with a programmatic statement: we want to try to advance Karl Rahner and Emmanuel Levinas along the narrow way of convergence. We want to let the thought of Rahner and Levinas speak, as it were, in each other’s time in order to recognize, despite their differences something of each other in the other, to recognize primarily the significance of the Other in what each of them says.4 The key consideration is the ethical-theological significance of the Other, where the ethical is influenced by the theological and the theological grounded in the ethical. Levinas affirms that philosophy is ‘the wisdom of love in the service of love’.5 Purcell contends that this is also the case with theology due to its practical and ethical concerns. He wishes, therefore, to show how Levinas and Rahner’s philosophical and theological writings complement each other. He does this for two ‘principal reasons’.6 Consider the first of his main reasons for embarking on this project. Firstly, we want

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