L’acte philosophique comme consécration de l’équivocité comprendre à partir du rapport phénoménologie et théologie chez Ricœur

Abstract

To articulate phenomenology and theology is to rediscover, on reading Ricoeur, the meaning to be given to this specific form of phenomenality which is the religious fact. To do this, Ricoeur will favor dialogue with the exegete, whose reading of the biblical text is not subject to any authority other than his own. Such a perspective necessarily calls for a hermeneutical refoundation of phenomenology: purely descriptive, it must also and henceforth turn into a critical exercise. For there can be no real phenomenology of the religious fact except as a distanced and questioned reading. Also our relationship to biblical textuality will be fundamentally to be thought from an epistemological angle. To do this, it is necessary to give the reflexive act the meaning of a process of construction and autonomous reconstitution of meaning. In short, our reflection attempts to highlight the fact that Ricoeur's decision to combine phenomenology and theology is necessarily a risk in that, on the one hand, there is a consecration of equivocity and, on the other hand, an infinite interpretation of meaning without this leaving truly open and explicit the realization or the establishment of an autonomous and free self. Textual mediation is here what makes it possible to read such a perspective.