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标题：In Whom, Then, Do We Put Our Trust?
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作者：J. Aaron Simmons
期刊名称：Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory
电子版ISSN：1530-5228
出版年度：2011
卷号：11
期号：3
出版社：The Whitestone Foundation
摘要：Drew Dalton's Longing for the Other is an impressive book due to its being analytically rigorous, philosophically fecund, and historically sensitive.1Motivated by Dalton's book, in what follows, I will engage in something of a thought-experiment regarding Levinasian philosophy of religion.2Though I will only be able to trace the rough outlines of an argument that will admittedly need filled-out in another essay, my, albeit tentative, hypothesis is that, contra Dalton, Levinas's philosophy might require a decidedly personalistic notion of the divine if his account of " God" is to do the philosophical work it seems intended to do. My, also tentative, conclusion is that Continental philosophers of religion who would resist such a personalist approach to the divine ought to offer arguments that personalism is false rather than simply assuming that it is a non-starter due to some of Levinas's own remarks