Finding Grace with God. Rose Ellen Dunn

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is the kerygmatic proclamation that is present in the biblical text calling the reading community into possibility; this is a proclamation that must be reinterpreted in each new context. In using a phenomenological hermeneutic, this chapter will explore new possibilities for reading the text of the Annunciation as an “awakening” and a “call” into divine possibility that both address and constitute the self.

      Chapter 4 develops an interpretation of the Annunciation as a moment of Gelassenheit through a theoretical framework that interweaves a phenomenological theology with the work of Luce Irigaray, Jean-Luc Marion, and Jacques Derrida. Luce Irigaray’s feminist philosophy provides a way to think about Mary as a gendered subject, as an example of a feminine incarnation of divinity. Marion’s phenomenology of givenness offers a means to consider the mutual gift of possibility that is given in the text of the Annunciation. Derrida’s interpretation of testimony and apophatic prayer invites further thought on the text of the Annunciation as well as the text of the Magnificat. With this theoretical framework in place, this chapter explores an interpretation of the Annunciation as an event of Gelassenheit—as an event springing from a mutual gift of love and overflowing with possibility.