Before the Text: Ricœur and the “Theological Turn”
Before the Text: Ricœur and the “Theological Turn”

Summary/Abstract: Th is paper begins by arguing that Jean-Luc Marion’s desire to maintain the philosophical rigor of his analysis of revelation has led him to mischaracterize revelation as a purely formal phenomenon devoid of any determinate content. Th e majority of the paper is devoted to showing that the approach to revelation off ered by Paul Ricoeur—whose treatment of the phenomenon assumes all of the risks of a thinking exposed to its own historicity—represents an important and all-too-often ignored counterpoint to the prevailing methodological orientation among those associated with the so-called theological turn in phenomenology. Th e paper contrasts the prevailing methods concerned with uncovering fundamental or “originary” structures with a “hermeneutical” approach to revelation, concerned with the productive imagination and the eff ective nature of texts.

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