To Listen and to Make Heard, or the Theologian Facing Philosophy

Response to Ruedi Imbach

Marc Vial

Abstract

Taking seriously the notion of “listening reason” emphasized by Ruedi Imbach, and focusing on the question of God’s almightiness, this brief response aims to show that the relation of systematic theology to philosophical theology is constitutive of the practice of any theology grounded in the Biblical witness to God. Such a relation not only consists, for the theologian, in welcoming the claims put forth by the philosophical discourse in order to develop its own discourse, but also in showing that the idea of God which the theologian construes may make sense even for those who, like the philosopher, are not required to take their starting point in the Scriptures as they elaborate their concept of God.
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