Onto-theologic Context of God Through "I and the Other" Dialectic


Atsiz H.

Dinbilimleri Akademik Arastirma Dergisi-Journal of Academic Research in Religious Sciences, vol.16, no.1, pp.171-187, 2016 (ESCI) identifier

Abstract

The historical meaning of God concept brings together a necessity which continuously keeps difficulty to talk about Him on the agenda. Recently metaphysics itself becoming open for discussion and accordingly the fact that the thing understood from ontology since ancient period till today is a kind of onto-theology, addressed another meaning field ascribed to God concept. We observe that this ontology itself being subject to criticism is an important part of the philosophical tradition which started by Hegel and continued by recent period philosophers such as Heidegger and Derrida. Although the aforementioned criticism looks like it is relieving the secular pressure of enlightening while taking historical context of God into consideration, it presents a structure which keeps the relation between God and creature continuously on agenda in a different way. The main