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Theological writing always transgresses itself, just as theological speech feeds on the silence in which, at last, it speaks correctly.

— Jean-Luc Marion God Without Being (1982)

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The icon and the idol determine two manners of being for beings, not two classes of beings.

God Without Being (1982)

The idol depends on the gaze that it satisfies, since if the gaze did not desire to satisfy itself in the idol, the idol would have no dignity for it.

God Without Being (1982)

What if, to envisage God, we did not have to wait for him within the horizon of Being, but rather transgress ourselves in risking to love love.

What if God did not have first to be, since he loved us first, when we were not? And what if, to envisage him, we did not have to wait for him within the horizon of Being, but rather transgress ourselves in risking to love love.

God Without Being (1982)

Any access to something like "God," precisely because of the aim of Being as such, will have to determine him in advance as a being. The precomprehension of "God" as being is self-evident to the point of exhausting in advance "God" as a question.

God Without Being (1982)

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