Books by Jean-Louis Chretien

How does one most profitably read the Bible? The answer, according to Chretien, must include allowing the Bible to read us. With the help of the great patristic writings as well as Protestant theologians and using his own poet's sensibility, he creatively explores such scriptural doctrines as joy, hope, and witness/testimony.

An investigation into the interplay of speech and silence in the dialogue between God and human beings, and human beings and the world. Taking in both the Old and New Testaments the book shows how important it is for the believer to listen to God and to others in silence and devotion.

In this first English translation of an important work, a leading phenomenologist unfolds the ideas of memory and loss, of the immemorable, and of hope, as he opens a phenomenological path to the heart of classical thought. He stands with Levinas, Marion, and Henry in attempting to join philosophy and religion after Kant, Nietzsche, and Heidegger.

Here, philosopher and theologian Jean-Louis Chretien revisits a favourite theme: how human life is shaped by the experience of call and response, explored with art as the context. For Chretien, art is about acts in response to what the artist sees or hears and how these acts provoke responses from viewers.

Shows how talking hands of painters and the secretly lucid voices of poets confront the finitude of the human body. In this title, the author uses poetry and painting to explore a theme that runs through all of his work: how human life is shaped by the experience of call and response.