Between Vision and Obedience–Rethinking Theological Epistemology: Theological Reflections on Rationality and Agency with Special Reference to Paul Ricoeur and G. W. F. Hegel

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The discussions about subject and validation in our late modernity tend to oscillate between the weak self of postmodernity (empty or rhetorical) and neo-Cartesian versions trying, as they do, to recover a discredited foundation. Correspondingly, the solutions advanced range from calls for a New Enlightenment (in the face of the resurgence of myth and the irrational) to attempts to re-enchant the world (in the face of the growing threat of an impersonal instrumental Reason). The present study seeks to respond theologically to such a situation from the perspective of God’s action in and towards the world by engaging two prominent philosophical/theological figures who continue to inform such discussions today, namely, Georg Friedrich Hegel and Paul Ricoeur. The upshot of this response points to a view of rationality that follows the drama of God’s engagement with the world, thus involving both dying and resurrection, ascesis and abundance, suffering witness and eucharistic communion.