2008 Annual Conference on Christian Philosophy
Jean-Luc Marion
Sponsored by
The M.A. Program in Philosophy
Franciscan University of Steubenville
The 2008 Annual Conference on Christian Philosophy was on the thought
of the contemporary French philosopher Jean-Luc Marion. The two day
conference in April consisted of thirty-four papers by scholars from across
the United States as well as a keynote address by Professor Marion entitled,
“The Phenomenological Origin of the Concept of Givenness.” Jean-Luc
Marion is an internationally known Catholic philosopher and theologian who
holds chairs at the University of Chicago and the University of Paris. He
works in the areas of modern philosophy, contemporary phenomenology and
philosophy of religion and is known for his attempt to synthesize the
catholic intellectual tradition with post-modernist thought. His works
include, On Descartes’ Metaphysical Prism; Cartesian Questions; The Idol
and Distance; God Without Being; Reduction and Givenness; Being Given:
An Essay on the Phenomenology of Givenness; and In Excess: Studies on
Saturated Phenomena. In 1992 Prof. Marion was awarded the Grand Prix du
Philosophie de l’Academie Francaise. A list of conference participants is
given below in alphabetical order.
Keynote Address
By
Jean-Luc Marion
The Phenomenological Origin of the Concept of Givenness
Bryne Allport
University of Scranton
Between Abundance and Absence:
The Witness in Marion’s Saturated Phenomenon
Larry Baker
Institute for Christian Studies
Gifted Time: Marion’s Challenge to Undecidability
Brian Becker
Fuller Theological Seminary
Azusa Pacific University
UCLA Alzheimer’s Research Center
Saturated Phenomena and Social Neuroscience:
Degrees of Givenness in Clinical Psychology
Michelle Blohm
Franciscan University of Steubenville
The Idolatry of Trent
Elizabeth Boggs
Saint Vincent College
Proclamation and Presence:
Seeing Marion Through Lutheran Eyes
Carlos Bovell
Institute of Christian Studies
Phenomenology and the Search for the Infinite God
Ken Boyer
Duquesne University
Book, Body, and Breath: Icons for the Church
Glenn Chicoine
University of Dallas
Sign and Gift
John Crosby
Franciscan University of Steubenville
Is Something Missing in Marion’s “Principle of Insufficient Reason”?
The Challenge of Phenomenological Value Philosophy
Daniel Dwyer
Xavier University
Intentionality is Always Already Erotic
Chad Engelland
Borromeo Seminary
John Carroll University
The Return of Eros in Marion
Sean Fox
Saint Vincent College
Marion versus Metaphysics: A Postmodernist’s New Look at God
Christina Gschwandtner
University of Scranton
A Dieu or From the Logos: Theological Turnings in
Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Marion?
Nathan Halloran
Fordham University
A Study of Woman as Saturated Phenomenon in Marion and Irigaray
Philip Harold
Roberts Morris University
Inspiration and Givenness:
Ethics According to Levinas and Marion
Kyle Hubbard
Fordham University
“Loving Even Myself”: Marion on Self-Love
Brian Johnstone
Holy Redeemer College
The Catholic University of America
Givenness and the Moral Life
Michael Kim
Villanova University
Love at the Limit of Phenomenology: Marion, Sartre, Badiou
Andrew Komasinski
Fordham University
Making Sense of the Saturated Phenomenon:
How Kierkegaard Can Help Marion’s Being Givenness
Stephen Lewis
Franciscan University of Steubenville
The Lover’s Advance as Epektasis in
Jean-Luc Marion’s The Erotic Phenomenon
Tanya Loughead
Canisius College
The Happy Idiot in El Salvador;
Jean-Luc Marion’s Phenomenology of Self-Love
Kevin McCabe
University of Chicago Divinity School
The Truth of the Mystery: Henri de Lubac and
Jean-Luc Marion on Eucharistic Theology
David Miller
University of Louisville
Union College
The Two Natures of Christ as Given and Shown:
A Christology Based on Marion’s Phenomenology of Revelation
Andrew Moran
Franciscan University of Steubenville
The Metaphysics of Blessed John Duns Scotus: Idolatrous or Iconic?
Derek Morrow
University of Dallas
Icon of the Gift versus the Idol of Pure Nature:
A Case Study in Marion’s Phenomenological Reading of
Cartesian Metaphysics
Joseph Rivera
St. Louis University
Reading the Atonement as a Saturated Phenomenon:
Jean-Luc Marion as a Resource for Theology
Samuel Rocha
Ohio State University
Marion and James’ Heartfelt and Intuitive Method-ology:
Its Implications for Philosophy, Education and Beyond
Jesse Russell
Louisiana State University
A Vision of Poetics in the Philosophy of
Jean-Luc Marion
Bret Saunders
University of Dallas
The Distance of Friendship: Reading Augustine with Marion
Andrew Staron
Catholic University of America
Moral Action and the Pragmatic of As If:
Gerald McKenny’s Critique of Marion’s Privileging of Love
Molly Sturdevant
DePaul University
Essence, Esse, and the Possibility of Being:
Marion on Ontological Arguments
Erik van Versendaal
Mundelein St. Mary of the Lake Seminary
Marcel and Marion on the Way of Life and the Way of Death
John White
Franciscan University of Steubenville
St. Bonaventure’s Illumination Theory and
The Problem of Metaphysical Idolatry
Paul Zipfel
Bradley University
The Dependent Self: A Study of Marion’s
Phenomenology and Its Effects on the Self