Abstract

RAMIREZ Z, Alberto. Phenomenology and liberation theology: the theological turn in latin american theology. Cuest. teol. [online]. 2015, vol.42, n.97, pp.229-249. ISSN 0120-131X.

The idea of the theological turn is for us an actual academic tradition which has contributed to reconsider the humanities and, especially, theology. As is well known, the expression "theological turn" was coined by the French philosopher Dominique Janicaud (1937-2002), who used it to question the direction that some French philosophers were giving to phenomenology. Janicaud thought that those philosophers had made phenomenology address issues which were not within its object of study, issues that actually belong to the discipline which purpose is to look for the logos of faith, i.e., theology. Those philosophers had turned the phenomenon of revelation -the "saturated phenomenon" as we call it today using the expression of Jean-Luc Marion and which is understood as an object of experience (especially of mystical experience)- into an object of study of phenomenology, with all which is implied by that.

Keywords : Liberation Theology; Phenomenology; Experience; Theological Turn; Theology.

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