Christina M Gschwandtner
Biographic Data
| ID | 460077 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christina M Gschwandtner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christina M |
| FAMILY NAME | Gschwandtner |
| SIGNATURE | GSCHWANDTNER C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fordham University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ways of Living Religion: Philosophical Investigations into Religious Experience
Ways of Living Religion provides a philosophical analysis of different types of religious experience - ascetic, liturgical, monastic, mystical, devotional, compassionate, fundamentalist - that focuses on the lived experience of religion rather than reducing it to mere statements of belief or doctrine. Using phenomenology, Christina M. Gschwandtner distinguishes between different kinds of religious experiences by examining their central characteri…
Self-Owning, Self-Transparency, and Inner Nudity: Hedwig Conrad-Martius on Interiority
Phenomenology and Liturgical Practice: Introduction to the Special Issue
What do people do when they worship together
Phenomenology with Big-Hearted Reason: A Conversation with Claude Romano
In this interview, Claude Romano discusses his phenomenological project of the event in relation to hermeneutics, reason, realism, and some other fundamental problems of phenomenology. He explains common themes in his phenomenological project and elucidates why he considers it important to leave behind the transcendental perspective in phenomenology. He distinguishes his descriptive realism from other realist movements in contemporary French phil…
Faith, Religion, and Spirituality: A Phenomenological and Hermeneutic Contribution to Parsing the Distinctions
Religion and spirituality are contested terms in the fields of Religious Studies, Theology, Sociology or Anthropology of Religion, and other areas, and the notion of faith has often been abandoned altogether. The present article attempts to make a distinctly philosophical contribution to this debate by employing phenomenological parameters, as they are articulated in the work of Martin Heidegger, for proposing distinctions between faith, religion…
Is Liturgy Ludic? Distinguishing between the Phenomena of Play and Ritual
What is the nature (or "Wesen") of the liturgical phenomenon? It has become immensely popular to describe liturgical or ritual practice as a kind of "holy play," whether as metaphor, as productive analogy for pragmatic or theological purposes, or even as making an ontological claim about what liturgy "is" in its essence. The present article seeks to complicate the association of the phenomena of liturgy and of play. The first part traces the orig…
Reading Religious Ritual with Ricoeur: Between Fragility and Hope
Reading Religious Ritual with Ricoeur: Between Fragility and Hope creates a dialogue between Ricœur's hermeneutic philosophy and the interpretation of human ritual practices, especially as such practices are manifested within the context of Christian liturgy. In the first part of the book, Christina M. Gschwandtner shows that Ricœur's account of religion would be deepened if it were to take into account not only the biblical texts but also forms …
Faith, violence, and phronesis: Narrative identity, rhetorical symbolism, and ritual embodiment in religious communities
What is Phenomenology of Religion? (Part II): The Phenomenology of Religious Experience
This article is part II of a consideration of phenomenology of religion focusing in this part on the conversation in contemporary French phenomenology. It begins with a brief comment about Heidegger's phenomenology of religious life and then engages most heavily those thinkers who discuss the phenomenon of religion in the Francophone context: Jean Héring, Emmanuel Lévinas, Jean-Luc Marion, Michel Henry, Jean-Yves Lacoste, Jean-Louis Chrétien, and…
What is phenomenology of religion? (Part I): The study of religious phenomena
Phenomenology of religion can refer to three distinct groups of phenomenological projects reflecting on religion. The term is used in the field of religious studies to designate the search for patterns of religious experiences or practices across traditions and to the methodology that shows religion to be a unique human experience deserving its own field of study. Philosophical phenomenology in the Husserlian tradition also engages religious ques…
Mystery Manifested: Toward a Phenomenology of the Eucharist in Its Liturgical Context
This article explores three contemporary phenomenological analyses of the Eucharist by the French phenomenologists Jean-Luc Marion, Jean-Yves Lacoste, and Emmanuel Falque, arguing that their descriptions are too excessive and individual, failing to take into account the broader liturgical context for eucharistic experience. The second part of the discussion seeks to develop an alternate phenomenological account of eucharistic experience that take…
The Rigor of Things: Conversations with Dan Arbib
The Rigor of Things: Conversations with Dan Arbib
This book provides an introduction to the life and work of philosopher and theologian Jean-Luc Marion through a set of interviews, discussing his educational career, his work on Descartes, his phenomenology, his theology, his philosophical methodology, and his views on the future of Catholicism in France. It presents all of his major ideas in fluid dialogue and conversational tone with his former student Dan Arbib. At the same time, it provides a…
Rigor of Things: Conversations with Dan Arbib
Mimesis or Metamorphosis? Eastern Orthodox Liturgical Practice and Its Philosophical Background
What does Eastern Orthodox liturgy do? Is it a mimetic remembrance of Christ's acts or about a transformation of the believers who come to worship? This paper explores the larger philosophical worldview within which patristic liturgy emerged in order to negotiate this tension between mimetic and transformative aspects of liturgical practice. It suggests that ancient philosophical conceptions of the cosmos and of soul and body underlie and can hen…
The Role of Death in Life: A Multidisciplinary Examination of the Relationship between Life and Death
The Vigil as Exemplary Liturgical Experience: On Jean‐Yves Lacoste's Phenomenology of Liturgy
What about Non-Human Life? An "Ecological" Reading of Michel Henry's Critique of Technology
This paper takes its departure from Michel Henry’s criticism of a technological view that “extends its reign to the whole planet, sowing desolation and ruin everywhere” (I am the Truth, 271). It argues that although Henry’s critique of technology is helpful and important, it does not go far enough, inasmuch as it excludes all non-human beings from the Truth of “Life” he advocates against the destructive truths of technology and therefore cannot f…
The neighbor and the infinite: Marion and Levinas on the encounter between self, human other, and God
What is phenomenology of religion? (Part I): The study of religious phenomena
Phenomenology of religion can refer to three distinct groups of phenomenological projects reflecting on religion. The term is used in the field of religious studies to designate the search for patterns of religious experiences or practices across traditions and to the methodology that shows religion to be a unique human experience deserving its own field of study. Philosophical phenomenology in the Husserlian tradition also engages religious ques…
What is Phenomenology of Religion? (Part II): The Phenomenology of Religious Experience
This article is part II of a consideration of phenomenology of religion focusing in this part on the conversation in contemporary French phenomenology. It begins with a brief comment about Heidegger's phenomenology of religious life and then engages most heavily those thinkers who discuss the phenomenon of religion in the Francophone context: Jean Héring, Emmanuel Lévinas, Jean-Luc Marion, Michel Henry, Jean-Yves Lacoste, Jean-Louis Chrétien, and…
Mimesis or Metamorphosis? Eastern Orthodox Liturgical Practice and Its Philosophical Background
What does Eastern Orthodox liturgy do? Is it a mimetic remembrance of Christ's acts or about a transformation of the believers who come to worship? This paper explores the larger philosophical worldview within which patristic liturgy emerged in order to negotiate this tension between mimetic and transformative aspects of liturgical practice. It suggests that ancient philosophical conceptions of the cosmos and of soul and body underlie and can hen…
What about Non-Human Life? An "Ecological" Reading of Michel Henry's Critique of Technology
This paper takes its departure from Michel Henry’s criticism of a technological view that “extends its reign to the whole planet, sowing desolation and ruin everywhere” (I am the Truth, 271). It argues that although Henry’s critique of technology is helpful and important, it does not go far enough, inasmuch as it excludes all non-human beings from the Truth of “Life” he advocates against the destructive truths of technology and therefore cannot f…
Mystery Manifested: Toward a Phenomenology of the Eucharist in Its Liturgical Context
This article explores three contemporary phenomenological analyses of the Eucharist by the French phenomenologists Jean-Luc Marion, Jean-Yves Lacoste, and Emmanuel Falque, arguing that their descriptions are too excessive and individual, failing to take into account the broader liturgical context for eucharistic experience. The second part of the discussion seeks to develop an alternate phenomenological account of eucharistic experience that take…
Faith, Religion, and Spirituality: A Phenomenological and Hermeneutic Contribution to Parsing the Distinctions
Religion and spirituality are contested terms in the fields of Religious Studies, Theology, Sociology or Anthropology of Religion, and other areas, and the notion of faith has often been abandoned altogether. The present article attempts to make a distinctly philosophical contribution to this debate by employing phenomenological parameters, as they are articulated in the work of Martin Heidegger, for proposing distinctions between faith, religion…
Is Liturgy Ludic? Distinguishing between the Phenomena of Play and Ritual
What is the nature (or "Wesen") of the liturgical phenomenon? It has become immensely popular to describe liturgical or ritual practice as a kind of "holy play," whether as metaphor, as productive analogy for pragmatic or theological purposes, or even as making an ontological claim about what liturgy "is" in its essence. The present article seeks to complicate the association of the phenomena of liturgy and of play. The first part traces the orig…
The neighbor and the infinite: Marion and Levinas on the encounter between self, human other, and God
What about Non-Human Life? An "Ecological" Reading of Michel Henry's Critique of Technology
This paper takes its departure from Michel Henry’s criticism of a technological view that “extends its reign to the whole planet, sowing desolation and ruin everywhere” (I am the Truth, 271). It argues that although Henry’s critique of technology is helpful and important, it does not go far enough, inasmuch as it excludes all non-human beings from the Truth of “Life” he advocates against the destructive truths of technology and therefore cannot f…
The Vigil as Exemplary Liturgical Experience: On Jean‐Yves Lacoste's Phenomenology of Liturgy
The Role of Death in Life: A Multidisciplinary Examination of the Relationship between Life and Death
The Rigor of Things: Conversations with Dan Arbib
The Rigor of Things: Conversations with Dan Arbib
This book provides an introduction to the life and work of philosopher and theologian Jean-Luc Marion through a set of interviews, discussing his educational career, his work on Descartes, his phenomenology, his theology, his philosophical methodology, and his views on the future of Catholicism in France. It presents all of his major ideas in fluid dialogue and conversational tone with his former student Dan Arbib. At the same time, it provides a…
Rigor of Things: Conversations with Dan Arbib
Mimesis or Metamorphosis? Eastern Orthodox Liturgical Practice and Its Philosophical Background
What does Eastern Orthodox liturgy do? Is it a mimetic remembrance of Christ's acts or about a transformation of the believers who come to worship? This paper explores the larger philosophical worldview within which patristic liturgy emerged in order to negotiate this tension between mimetic and transformative aspects of liturgical practice. It suggests that ancient philosophical conceptions of the cosmos and of soul and body underlie and can hen…
What is Phenomenology of Religion? (Part II): The Phenomenology of Religious Experience
This article is part II of a consideration of phenomenology of religion focusing in this part on the conversation in contemporary French phenomenology. It begins with a brief comment about Heidegger's phenomenology of religious life and then engages most heavily those thinkers who discuss the phenomenon of religion in the Francophone context: Jean Héring, Emmanuel Lévinas, Jean-Luc Marion, Michel Henry, Jean-Yves Lacoste, Jean-Louis Chrétien, and…
What is phenomenology of religion? (Part I): The study of religious phenomena
Phenomenology of religion can refer to three distinct groups of phenomenological projects reflecting on religion. The term is used in the field of religious studies to designate the search for patterns of religious experiences or practices across traditions and to the methodology that shows religion to be a unique human experience deserving its own field of study. Philosophical phenomenology in the Husserlian tradition also engages religious ques…
Mystery Manifested: Toward a Phenomenology of the Eucharist in Its Liturgical Context
This article explores three contemporary phenomenological analyses of the Eucharist by the French phenomenologists Jean-Luc Marion, Jean-Yves Lacoste, and Emmanuel Falque, arguing that their descriptions are too excessive and individual, failing to take into account the broader liturgical context for eucharistic experience. The second part of the discussion seeks to develop an alternate phenomenological account of eucharistic experience that take…
Faith, violence, and phronesis: Narrative identity, rhetorical symbolism, and ritual embodiment in religious communities
Phenomenology with Big-Hearted Reason: A Conversation with Claude Romano
In this interview, Claude Romano discusses his phenomenological project of the event in relation to hermeneutics, reason, realism, and some other fundamental problems of phenomenology. He explains common themes in his phenomenological project and elucidates why he considers it important to leave behind the transcendental perspective in phenomenology. He distinguishes his descriptive realism from other realist movements in contemporary French phil…
Faith, Religion, and Spirituality: A Phenomenological and Hermeneutic Contribution to Parsing the Distinctions
Religion and spirituality are contested terms in the fields of Religious Studies, Theology, Sociology or Anthropology of Religion, and other areas, and the notion of faith has often been abandoned altogether. The present article attempts to make a distinctly philosophical contribution to this debate by employing phenomenological parameters, as they are articulated in the work of Martin Heidegger, for proposing distinctions between faith, religion…
Is Liturgy Ludic? Distinguishing between the Phenomena of Play and Ritual
What is the nature (or "Wesen") of the liturgical phenomenon? It has become immensely popular to describe liturgical or ritual practice as a kind of "holy play," whether as metaphor, as productive analogy for pragmatic or theological purposes, or even as making an ontological claim about what liturgy "is" in its essence. The present article seeks to complicate the association of the phenomena of liturgy and of play. The first part traces the orig…
Reading Religious Ritual with Ricoeur: Between Fragility and Hope
Reading Religious Ritual with Ricoeur: Between Fragility and Hope creates a dialogue between Ricœur's hermeneutic philosophy and the interpretation of human ritual practices, especially as such practices are manifested within the context of Christian liturgy. In the first part of the book, Christina M. Gschwandtner shows that Ricœur's account of religion would be deepened if it were to take into account not only the biblical texts but also forms …
Phenomenology and Liturgical Practice: Introduction to the Special Issue
What do people do when they worship together
Self-Owning, Self-Transparency, and Inner Nudity: Hedwig Conrad-Martius on Interiority
Ways of Living Religion: Philosophical Investigations into Religious Experience
Ways of Living Religion provides a philosophical analysis of different types of religious experience - ascetic, liturgical, monastic, mystical, devotional, compassionate, fundamentalist - that focuses on the lived experience of religion rather than reducing it to mere statements of belief or doctrine. Using phenomenology, Christina M. Gschwandtner distinguishes between different kinds of religious experiences by examining their central characteri…
Philosophy (14 works) · Epistemology (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Theology (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Karl Barth and Christian Theology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Christian Theology and Mission (4 works) · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity (4 works) · Law (4 works)