Radical Revelation

Balázs M. Mezei is Professor of Philosophy at Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Hungary. He has widely published on the philosophy of religion, phenomenology, and literary criticism.

The great strength of Radical Revelation is its breadth of enquiry ... [Mezei] deftly bridges arbitrary academic divides, such as those between analytical and continental forms of philosophy, while consistently making use of a wide range of artistic, musical, architectural and literary works as sources with which to illustrate his account of revelation.

• AcknowledgmentsForeword1. General Introduction2. Structure and ContentChapter One: What is Revelation?1. Preliminaries2. The Presuppositions of Revelation3. The Semantics of Revelation4. The Historical Origins of Revelation5. The Cognitive Origins of Revelation6. The Fact of Revelation7. Theories of Revelation8. A Radical Philosophical Theology9. Sources of RevelationChapter Two: Models of Revelation1. Preliminaries2. Kinds, Types, and Models 3. Forms of Revelation4. From Forms to Models5. Systems of Models 6. An Example: The Liturgy7. A Concluding RemarkChapter Three: Self-Revelation1. Preliminaries2. The Grammar of Self-Revelation3. The History of Self-Revelation 4. The Model of Self-Revelation5. Self and Unity6. Self and Persons7. Radical Personhood8. Radical Personhood as kenosis 9. Self-Revelation as Radical PersonhoodChapter Four: Radical Revelation1. Preliminaries2. Self-revelation and Radical Revelation3. Radical Revelation as the Fact of Freedom4. The Eight Gestures of Freedoma) Birthb) Growthc) Entryd) Healinge) Radiancef) Transfigurationg) Kenosish) Overcoming 5. Radical Re-velation6. Radical Revelation as apokalypsisChapter Five: The Revelation of Apocalyptic Personhood1. Preliminaries2. The Last Judgment of Michelangelo3. Aspects of Apocalyptic Personhooda) The Kingdom of Godb) The Son of Manc) Resurrectiond) Pentecoste) Conversionf) Stoning g) The Lamb of God4. Trinitarian RelationsChapter Six: Apocalyptic Phenomenology1. Preliminaries 2. From Openness to Newness3. Newness as Personhood4. A Phenomenology of Disclosure5. The Principle of Refusivum Sui6. Models of Disclosure a) Augustine’s Confessional Apocalypseb) An Apocalypse of Contrastsc) A Faustian Apocalypsed) The Visage as Apocalypse7. The Musical Genius Chapter Seven: The Catholicity of Revelation1. On Overtures 2. Architectonics3. Catholicity4. Faith5. Hope6. Love7. ProspectsConclusionAppendix I: The Concentric Model of RevelationAppendix II: The Ramifications of RevelationAppendix III: Aspects of CatholicityAppendix IV: An Outline of the Study of ApocalypticsBibliographyIndex of NamesIndex of Biblical PassagesIndex of Art Works