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God and Difference

Publication date: 01.12.2020

Studia Religiologica, 2020, Volume 53, Issue 4, pp. 255 - 274

https://doi.org/10.4467/20844077SR.20.018.13036

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Krzysztof Mech
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6683-5460 Orcid
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God and Difference

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This text begins a research project concerning those thinkers who associate the discussion about the possibility of thinking about God with the problem of difference. The main question of these considerations is this: How does God appear on the differentiated horizon, while torn by difference always conceived in a defined manner? If difference is inevitably inscribed in thought, then how is God inscribed in difference? These questions lead to another: How does difference rule in reflection on divinity? In other words: How far does the way that difference is conceived affect how we reflect upon the deity? When looking for answers to these questions, we take the first step towards Heidegger. Owing to the special status of ontological difference and the trace it leaves on thinking “on the horizon” of difference, it is with this that we begin movement toward differentiation as such. The question about God and the difference in Heidegger’s thought in this text takes the following form: How does God appear in a sphere divided by the difference between Being and beings? How does ontological difference mark the conception of God?

* The article was written as part of the “Józef Tischner – Polish Philosophy of Freedom and European Thought” research project (11H 13 0471 82), financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

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Information: Studia Religiologica, 2020, Volume 53, Issue 4, pp. 255 - 274

Article type: Original article

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God and Difference

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God and Difference

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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6683-5460

Krzysztof Mech
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6683-5460 Orcid
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Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Published at: 01.12.2020

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