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Article

Publication Title

Religions

Abstract

We are now witnessing a great renewal of philosophical interest in the material aspects of religiosity. In this article I show that we have resources for this work in the very late philosophy of Paul Ricoeur, resources that are equally unexpected and deeply moving. In particular, in Ricoeur’s late turn we see the promising beginnings of a sacramental philosophy that links Baptism and the Song of Songs to show how liturgical practice is fundamentally tied to the beauty and sacredness of the natural world. The result is the realization that an ethics of hope is only truly completed in a philosophy of praise, eschatology pointing toward doxology.

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1-13

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DOI

10.3390/rel12100796

Volume

12

Issue

10

Publication Date

Fall 2021

Keywords

liturgical theology; Ricoeur; Song of Songs; baptism; sacrament

Disciplines

Philosophy

ISSN

2077-1444

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