Sacredness and Aesthetics: Kearney and Desmond on Prayer

• Published in: Modern theology Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 3 - 22
• Main Author: Vanden Auweele, Dennis
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.01.2021
• Subjects: Aesthetics; Deconstruction

Heidegger famously asserted that one cannot pray to the God of onto‐theo‐logic. God is here made into a determinate concept, the highest idea of reason, and thereby loses its constitutive transcendence and personhood. To think of God appropriately after Heidegger means to think of God in a way amena...