Abstract The theme of parrhesia clearly emerges in a few dense pages, dating back to the 1950s, by two of the greatest theologians of the 20th Century. At first sight Hans Urs von Balthasar and Karl Rahner seem to be restating two different but already traditional interpretations: the

Abstract This essay attempts to examine Foucault’s use of the concept of parrhesia and to understand why he makes it so central to his interpretation of classical and late classical thought. Such an interpretation is not in fact random or impolitic, but actually of critical importance

Abstract This paper encapsulates the Evangelical theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s reasons for working with the anti-Nazi resistance in Germany and, when arrested and tortured, hiding his own position. This dissimulation is understood as an example of renouncing parrhesia, for which Bo

Abstract The dogma of “reversibility”. Guilt, torment and suffering in Joseph de Maistre’s works This paper connects Joseph de Maistre’s providentialist interpretation of the French Revolution in his Considerations on France (1796) with his thoughts on the problem of

Abstract Politics and redemption in Otto Pfleiderer’s Paulinismus. A note on the Letter to the Colossians This paper discusses Otto Pfleiderer’s interpretation of the Letter to the Colossians in his Paulinismus. The cosmological-historical valence that Paul gives to Christ’s act

Abstract Redeemers and traitors. Being fair to Nietzsche in the age of “general economic administration of the earth” This paper examines the concept of redemption in Nietzsche’s work. Nietzsche resolves, on the one hand, to adopt a genealogical approach to the concept; on

Abstract Redemption and reconciliation. The theological-political comparison between Hegel and Schleiermacher This paper examines the concept of redemption as understood by Hegel and Schleiermacher. Both authors conceive of redemption in dialectical terms, and their ideas are deeply r

Abstract Bernhard Welte in the wake of Heidegger. From the temple to the shopping mall (or the end of the temple) This essay discusses the fact that sacred spaces are today disappearing, through an examination of Bernhard Welte’s considerations on the meaning of the temple and its spa

Abstract Corbin and the meditation on temple This essay examines the extent to which the theological-political understanding of the temple as a space and a territorialisation of the sacred, and the interpretation offered by Henri Corbin of the concept of the imago templi, differ. Corb

Abstract What do we see when we think about “temple”?  This essay develops the theme of the temple from the perspective of a phenomenology of the image. In doing so, it intends to problematize the very concept of the temple and its correspondence with images, and to avoid