DISENCHANTING THE THEOLOGY OF CHRISTIANITY: THINKING GOD OTHERWISE AND ENDING THE MAGIC OF GREEK WISDON

Nilo Ribeiro

doi:10.20911/21768757v52n1p163/2020

Abstract

The research aims to reconstruct the expressive contribution of the philosophy of otherness to (re) thinking the status of Christian theology in Latin American lands, as well as the disenchantment of that kind of philosophy. First, it is about evoking the contribution of the wisdom of Love to think Christian theology otherwise in light of a broader background that re-establish the relationship between Judaism and Christianity. Secondly, we intend to explain the impact of the Levinasian approach on the problem of God and its developments in our continent from a theological point of view. Without denying that theology has a discursive character, it is a matter of retaking what the Lithuanian-Frenchman philosopher evokes about the service to the love of the wisdom of love. And by way of conclusion, it is intended to propose some brief notes about the urgency of a poststructuralist turn of Latin American theology in function of the centrality of ethics and their respective languages in the manner of a Canticle of the Canticles.

Highlights

IntroductionUnderlying to the metaphor as the Intertelling or Saying of the other, the inheritance of the tradition from the Hebraism or from what could be called the Rabbinic-Talmudic Judaism impregnates the philosophy of the otherness
With a leaning intuition to address the problematic reception of the Levinasian thinking through the theology produced in Brazil, an initial emphasis should be made that the term disenchantment takes on a very specific connotation due to the positivity of the wisdom of love to the service of love (LEVINAS, 2011, p. 176), as formulated by Levinas
Once the semantic constellation of Levinasian philosophy is explained, which highlights the reflection that follows, some fundamental a empts will be made clear to achieve the desired objective here. It is a ma er of presenting the basic questions regarding the tangential approach between Christianity and Judaism, and the urgency of incorporating the [other] rabbinic-Talmudic tradition in order to exercise a Desacralization of the theology that thinks God from the perspective of the primacy driven from the matrix of Greco-Roman thought

Summary

Introduction

Underlying to the metaphor as the Intertelling or Saying of the other, the inheritance of the tradition from the Hebraism or from what could be called the Rabbinic-Talmudic Judaism impregnates the philosophy of the otherness This Jewish perspective leads the philosopher to establish a counterpoint with the love to the wisdom of the Greek Sofia and the syn (tax) of this philosophy. Once the semantic constellation of Levinasian philosophy is explained, which highlights the reflection that follows, some fundamental a empts will be made clear to achieve the desired objective here It is a ma er of presenting the basic questions regarding the tangential approach between Christianity and Judaism, and the urgency of incorporating the [other] rabbinic-Talmudic tradition in order to exercise a Desacralization of the theology that thinks God from the perspective of the primacy driven from the matrix of Greco-Roman thought. It is intended to point out the urgency of a new accentuation of Liberation Theology from the onto-hermeneutic-(theo)poetical opening to the (theo)prophetic sharpening that inseminates Latin American theology, and enlarges to all types of theology that are practiced in the heart of Christianity by the most diverse cultures within their respective contexts

From wri en Revelation to the Commandment of Love

The reception of Levinasian thought by theology in Brazil

The magic and sorcery of post-philosophical thinking

The theology otherwise spoken and the end of idolatries

Concluding considerations