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Jean-Louis Chrétien's Wounded Word. Timothy Troutner. 2019, Church Life Journal. There has been no philosopher more attentive to the fragility of speech—to its finitude, its woundedness, and the silence from which it is born and toward which it tends—than the French poet and phenomenologist Jean-Louis Chrétien (d. 28 June 2019).
Jul 5, 2019 · Articles. Jean-Louis Chrétien's Wounded Word. by Timothy Troutner July 05, 2019. There has been no philosopher more attentive to the fragility of speech—to its finitude, its woundedness, and the silence from which it is born and toward which it tends—than the French poet and phenomenologist Jean-Louis Chrétien.
In his provocative essay “The Wounded Word: The Phenomenology of Prayer,” Jean-Louis Chrétien argues that prayer is the “religious phenomenon par excellence,” and that through prayer, one meets God and is made in this encounter. [1]
Jan 19, 2023 · Wounds mark the pages of Jean-Louis Chrétien's philosophy. 1 Perhaps most well-known is his description of prayer as a “wounded word”—speech broken by “the yawning chasm of its addressee.” 2 This is one wound among many.
Thus, he explores the “immemorial,” the “unforgettable,” and the “unhoped for” (in four essays collected under that title) as much as the “unheard-of” (in The Ark of Speech ). He often reflects on nakedness and woundedness in places where we might not first look for them (for example, in the voice or in speech).
May 10, 2024 · Chrétien’s grammarizing and fielding of gratitude is a spiritual practice existing within the flow of polyphonic response ever riding the wide waves of desire. For Chrétien, desire’s spiritual voyage must ever lead towards a conversio of the entire synaesthetic incarnate self.
Jan 19, 2023 · Most well known in Chrétien's corpus is his description of prayer as a “wounded word,” a phrase that seeks to describe an ungraspable dimension of phenomenal life in which the contingency and...
