Thinking of Transcendental in J.L. Marion’s Theology and Phenomenology

Abstract

This paper demonstrates that Jean-Luc Marion’s theological and phenomenological projects are motivated by the attempts to go beyond the reality immanent to the subject of knowledge. I show that Marion’s main concern is how one may avoid the replacement of God with the idol when doing theology and that of phenomena with subjective representations when doing philosophy. Analyzing Marion’s writings the author comes to the conclusion that in Marion’s theology and philosophy, the condition of possibility of thinking the transcendent is non-autonomous and finite subjectivity.