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9 - Eucharistic reasoning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 December 2009

Oliver Davies
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King's College London
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L'acte de penser ne découle pas d'une simple possibilité naturelle. Il est, au contraire, la seule creation veritable. La creation, c'est la genèse de l'acte de penser dans la pensée elle-même … Penser, c'est toujours interpreter, c'est-à-dire expliquer, déveloper, déchiffrer, traduire une signe. Traduire, déchiffrer, développer sont la forme de la création pure.

The act of thinking does not proceed from a simple natural possibility; on the contrary, it is the only true creation. Creation is the genesis of the act of thinking within thought itself. To think is always to interpret – to explicate, to develop, to decipher, to translate a sign. Translating, deciphering, developing are the form of pure creation.

Gilles Deleuze, Proust et Signes

In the first section of this book we saw that reason itself in the pre-modern world was understood to be an integral part of the world as created. The detaching of reason from its matrix in a creation-centred cosmology itself played a crucial role in the evolution of the modern, and has become a condition of modern living. Theology has struggled to realise its potential from within the parameters laid down by secular reason. It is only with the rise of Barthianism and its aftermath that alternatives arose, which wrested theology away from secular reason by denying its purchase in thinking ordered to the divine freedom.

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The Creativity of God
World, Eucharist, Reason
, pp. 170 - 191
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2004

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  • Eucharistic reasoning
  • Oliver Davies, King's College London
  • Book: The Creativity of God
  • Online publication: 10 December 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511616921.010
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  • Oliver Davies, King's College London
  • Book: The Creativity of God
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  • Eucharistic reasoning
  • Oliver Davies, King's College London
  • Book: The Creativity of God
  • Online publication: 10 December 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511616921.010
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