This article comes from “Figaro Magazine”
You are not a Catholic philosopher, you often say. Hard to believe you!
And yet yes. I am baptized Catholic and professionally a philosopher, just as a Catholic can also be a shoemaker or a lumberjack. Because there is no more Christian philosophy than there is Protestant mathematics. It is therefore from philosophy that I open the question of God, in a different way than that of theology which starts from biblical Revelation.
But philosophy was long married to metaphysics, and the latter, in turn, was the handmaiden of theology...
No: philosophy only took on the title of “metaphysics” from the 14th century. And it is precisely from this moment that its rules began to have to be distinguished from those of theology. Because theology starts from a Revelation. Which involves a difficult obstacle course, akin to high mountain climbing. It involves…