Oltre l’eresia, contro il diktat

Per una fenomenologia della religione

Résumé

The phenomenology of religion, although historically practiced, has rarely been subjected to a critical examination of its legitimacy, oscillating between the diktat imposing methodological atheism and the view that in its heretical developments it expresses its true inspiration. This paper aims to explore this tension through a comparison of two opposing perspectives: on the side of impossibility, Janicaud emphasizes the theological contaminations within French phenomenology, while Heidegger assigns philosophy the role of an ontological corrective with respect to theology; on the opposite side, Jean-Luc Marion proposes revelation as a saturated phenomenon, and Gerardus van der Leeuw identifies lived religious experience as the legitimate object of this phenomenological inquiry. The analysis concludes with a critical evaluation, showing how a phenomenology of religion may be possible, but only within the limits imposed by the methodological distinction between philosophy and theology.