Donation, gratuité, louange. La possibilité d’un rapport libre à Dieu dans la philosophie de Jean-Luc Marion

Jean-Luc Marion’s work addresses the theological theme by proposing the saturatedphenomenon as a theory reopening the place of God’s in contemporary philosophy. Theabsolute gratuity characterizing the divine manifestation calls a finite but still free subjectiveanswer. In particular, the developments of saturation towards the event lead to verify whetherthe human response and its temporal dimension maintains a fundamental role, reversed inan eschatological form. To understand the subjective form in Marion’s production it is usefulto introduce the concept of inoperosity, proposed by Jean-Luc Nancy and Giorgio Agambenand introduced in the theo-phenomenological field by Jean-Yves Lacoste. In fact, althoughMarion doesn’t use this concept, it is very useful, tracing a human relationship to the worldand to God not subjected to causal and metaphysical bonds. The God-human link in Marion’sphenomenology is obtained by a reflection on his analysis of the inoperative word, such aspraise and confession, a possibility for a free self-engagement in God’s revelation