Levinas and the Significance of Passivity in the Christian Religious Experience

Analyzing the tendency of Christian believers to rationalize the religious experience of the face of the Other, I reveal through Levinas, how, in doing so, they paradoxically neglect to perceive God, who is love. I will focus on the appropriate response shown by both Levinas and Christ in the inter-...

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Main Author: Cyfko James
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2016-08-01
Series:Open Theology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/opth-2018-0040