Vierteljahresschrift für das Gesamtgebiet der katholischen Theologie
Begründet von Kardinal Leo Scheffczyk • ISSN 0178-1626
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Abstract

Mariéle Wulf:
Provocation: the Foundation of Values
TheIimportance of the Christian Existentialism of Gabriel Marcel and Existential Phenomenology for Moral Theology
(FKTh 2020-1, p. 15–37)

Moral theology is a subject with a constantly provoking name. It has to face the challenge to explain its self-conception in a new way. Theology and moral explanations seem to be unable to provide any explanations for life anymore – though the human person stays an enigma to himself. Existential experiences cannot be avoided; they decide whether life is experienced as success or as failure, whether it is meaningful or meaningless. A Christian existentialism, though seemingly self-contradictive, can explain values in the wider horizon of meaning. I prove this thesis by consulting Gabriel Marcel and the existential phenomenology of Edith Stein. This argumentation permits to confront broken meaning with the healing power of revelation.

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