GOD & FRENCH PHENOMENOLOGY by J Aaron Simmons 

Great overview! Clear and concise. A talk of this scope usually takes at least 3hrs and is not half as enjoyable. I personally liked the reference to Rap and Metal music: I had never considered the Judgment Night soundtrack as a rubric for meaningful analytic / continental synthesis when approaching the philosophy of religion. 😃

If I were doing philosophy at Furman, this guy would be my guy! Well explained, sensitive to religious claims, and enthusiastic.

In summary, " “Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.” ― Blaise Pascal.

Love this

Graat introduction to French Phenomenology. One question I have would be if we were to "move on" so to speak from debates framed in terms of "God as Being" -- i.e. real or not real, being or non-being-- and moved towards something like "God as Love" or "God as Gift," what would that actually look like in practice (other than Pentecostal and charismatic revivals)? What would that look like for evangelization? Would there be evangelization? How might the pastoral approach change? And how might Christians who would an "orthodox" or "traditional" view of God then respond to non-believers who still frame the debate in terms of God as Being? As in, if a nonbeliever asks a believer whether or not God is real, how then does the believer answer the question without seeming to gaslight the person or sound like she is dodging the question?

Excellent!

It seems to me that the analytical turn in theology was kind of a weird mistake. Saying things in modes and registers that were at least ahistorical and at most willfully mis representing what the aims and point of the Bible actually might have been. It's as if they were trying to combat the subtraction stories of modernity with grandiose marketing claims.It's as if they wanted to approximate a Religious Grand Unified Theory ala Physics.

Thanks Aaron...,even talking of god as not a " being" seems to still be a "concept" of god....,.maybe this intuition bout not a" "being" is that god is invisible, is SPIRIT