Thinking God Otherwise
Entering into the Work of Emmanuel Falque
- Philosophy
- Publisher: Cascade Books (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2025
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Publisher's Description
Contemporary French Catholic philosopher Emmanuel Falque has risen to the forefront among international intellectuals speaking on Christianity. Inspired by his Catholic faith as well as his humanist vision, Falque offers thought-provoking answers to today's social, cultural, and philosophical issues. The present book, newly translated from the French, offers a vivid and highly accessible introduction to the basic premises underlying Falque's work. In it, French author Alain Saudan lucidly shows how Falque's thought not only comes from major twentieth-century pioneers of Catholicism, Henri de Lubac, SJ, Jacques Maritain, Jurgen Moltmann, Karl Rahner, SJ, and Jean-Luc Marion, but also creatively transcends their ideas by introducing novel concepts into philosophy and theology. Saudan's book offers a window into key debates, tensions, and opportunities within the Western tradition that religious and secular cultures are continuing to grapple with today.
Endorsements (4)
“This book is a timely and valuable contribution to the God after God debate. Featuring a robust and illuminating encounter between Paul Ricoeur and Emmanuel Falque on the relationship between theology and philosophy, it invites a new generation of philosophers to ask, ‘what does it mean to think about religion in a post-atheist age?’”
“This book is a helpfully illuminating and engaging introduction to the thought of Emmanuel Falque. Alain Saudan is lucidly conversant with Falque’s work and conveys it in an intelligently compact manner. Falque is worthy of more widespread recognition in the Anglophone world for his bold and philosophically thoughtful approach to the relation of philosophy and theology in general, and philosophy and Christianity in particular. This book will be welcomed by thinkers and scholars who wonder about the ‘theological turn’ in French phenomenology and if with Falque they too might cross the Rubicon between philosophy and Christianity. This book lays out well the terms of Falque’s crossing. Warmly recommended.”
“This is a lucid and helpful introduction to the important work of Emmanuel Falque. It explains how Falque has significantly modulated the ‘theological turn in phenomenology’ in the directions of a greater openness to the metaphysical legacy of ‘French Spiritualism,’ a greater questioning of the philosophy/theology divide, and a Merleau-Ponty influenced insistence on the mediating role of the body as something at once hyper-apparent yet ecstatically real and intentional.”
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