Philosophy and Religion

This article by Bertrand Vergely, drawn from a workshop devoted to the relationship between theology and philosophy, offers a systematic study of the relations between these two disciplines. Structured in three parts, the reflection begins from the observation that their contemporary opposition feeds a shared nihilism, before successively examining the limits of the religious critique of philosophy and those of the philosophical critique of religion. The central idea is that philosophy and religion, far from being mutually exclusive, participate in the same dynamic of relation and self-knowledge: the former through an act of faith in thought, the latter through Trinitarian theology as a model for overcoming violence. The contribution of the article lies in its demonstration that their reciprocal polemics reproduce the very impasses they claim to denounce, and that their reconciliation requires the recognition of their common prophetic vocation in the face of nihilism and arbitrariness.