ABSTRACT
Traditionally, theology and philosophy of religion have served as guardians of belief. By subjecting particular beliefs to rational scrutiny, they provide support for those beliefs that survive the light of reason and reject those that do not. The relationship between faith and philosophy cuts differently in recent engagements between religion and continental philosophy.2 Rather than offering the means for adjudicating and refining religion's truth, philosophy is frequently deemed the primary source of religion's infection by ontotheology. Under the guise of aiding belief, philosophy has led religion astray by providing only the false idols of ontotheological gods. Indeed, Jean-Luc Marion suggests that the so-called 'death of God' is a boon to Christianity rather than a bane. Philosophy's god has died, says Marion, making room for the (re)emergence of the true god of faith. Rather than a god whose being is in question, this god is as pure gift, as self-giving love made manifest in the Eucharist (properly administered by priests in proper relationship to the ecclesiastical hierarchy).3
