Phenomenalizing God, revelation, and counter-truth: Jean-Luc Marion's theologization of phenomenality

The concern of the dissertation is with the hermeneutic history of the phenomenology of giftedness, specifically the contemporary debates over the essence of phenomenality. This project is an effort to investigate and defend Jean-Luc Marion's theologization of phenomenality against the metaphysical and postmetaphysical perception of the gift within the discussion of ontologism. Given the criticism of the ontological account of the gift, Marion's project is an attempt to overcome the alienated phenomenon caused by ego-logical constitution and its delimitation of what "it gives." Marion's theologization paves an alternative way to unravel the aporia of counter-experiences by way of assigning excess and formulating a phenomenological account of revelation in the form of the visible. Central to Marion's theologization is his theological framework to perceive the order of phenomenality as revelatory, characteristically based on the immanent order of phenomenality, releasing it from any ontological and causal bindings. This project develops Marion's hermeneutics of God revisited under the thread of the immanent phenomenality with the pragmatic name of the "phenomenalizing God," whose phenomenalizing action is not in the service of Seinsfrage but of provoking the unforeseeable, the excess, and the assignation to witness. This project exhibits an important intersection of Marion's discussion of giftedness with the Asian spirituality on the basis of a dynamic correlation between the dismissal of transcendental subjectivity and the visible as-such-ness.