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Sacramental Presence after Heidegger - Onto-theology, Sacraments, and the Mother's Smile (Paperback)
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Sacramental Presence after Heidegger - Onto-theology, Sacraments, and the Mother's Smile (Paperback)
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Theology after Heidegger must take into account history and
language as elements in the pursuit of meaning. Quite often, this
prompts a hurried flight from metaphysics to an embrace of an
absence at the centre of Christian narrativity. Conor Sweeney here
explores the 'postmodern' critique of presence in the context of
sacramental theology, engaging the thought of Louis-Marie Chauvet
and Lieven Boeve. Chauvet is an influential postmodern theologian
whose critique of the perceived onto-theological constitution of
presence in traditional sacramental theology has made big waves,
while Boeve is part of a more recent generation of theologians who
even more wholeheartedly embrace postmodern consequences for
theology. Sweeney considers the extent to which postmodernism a la
Heidegger upsets the hermeneutics of sacramentality, asking whether
this requires us to renounce the search for a presence that by
definition transcends us. Against both the fetishisation of
presence and absence, Sweeney argues that metaphysics has a
properly sacramental basis, and that it is only through this
reality that the dialectic of presence and absence can be
transcended. The case is made for the full but restless
signification of the mother's smile as the paradigm for genuine
sacramental presence.
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