The Paris Debate: Ricœur’s Public Intervention and Private Reflections on the Status and Meaning of Christian Philosophy in the 1930s

Authors

  • Michael Sohn Institut protestant de théologie/EHESS (Paris)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/errs.2013.167

Keywords:

Christian Philosophy, Reason, Faith, Immanence, Transcendence

Abstract

This article explores Paul Ricœur’s early writings in the 1930s on Christian philosophy.  It seeks to contextualize both his published and unpublished works from that period within the robust historical, philosophical and theological debates in Paris between the leading intellectuals of the time: Bréhier, Gilson, Blondel, Brunschvicg, Marcel, Maury, de Lubac, and Barth.  The article proceeds to examine Ricœur’s own position within these debates.

 

Author Biography

Michael Sohn, Institut protestant de théologie/EHESS (Paris)

I am currently an Oratoire-Ricoeur Post-doctoral Research Fellow, 2012-13, at L'institut protestant de théologie and sponsored by Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales.

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Published

2013-06-06

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Varia