Walter Benjamin: Possibilitats teològiques de la mort i resurrecció en la vida i obra d'un profeta agnòstic. Propostes per a una propedèutica teològica del diàleg

• Autores: Francesc Torradeflot Freixes
• Localización: Revista catalana de teología, ISSN 0210-5551, Vol. 20, Nº. 1, 1995, págs. 155-175
• Idioma: catalán
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  • Beyond the prejudices, Benjamin is an interesting author for theological thought. Philosophy has in him one of the few cases which testifies creative coherence between Iife and thought. Benjamin makes you think; he makes the theologian participate in his strange harmony between language philosphy, marxism and secular mysticism. His personal failure, and the one of his historical period, suggest a christical dimension that inte- grates everything that is marginal. Benjamin is a thinker that integrates, specially in the overcoming of sep- arating philosophy from theology. His coherent testimony elaborates a kerygmatic synthesis from the ruins, from the marginal things. The lesson that theology can learn from him today is precisely this: there's no dia- logue possible, there's no overall synthesis, if it isn't made from the marginal. Benjamin gives a spiritual di- rnension to failure and, in this way, he assumes it significantly through a saved language. Although the salva- tion Benjamin offers is only aesthetic and nevB becomes ontological. Nevertheless, his thought is fecund for interreligious dialogue, spiritual and liberation theology. In this way theology can't refuse the rneaning the partial thing has for the totality if it wants to avoid the sectarian ghetto and to favour its universalist self- understanding.