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 The Mystery of Being contains the most systematic exposition of the philosophical thought of Gabriel Marcel, a convert to Catholicism and the most distinguished twentieth-century exponent of Christian existentialism. Its two volumes are the Gifford lectures which Marcel delivered in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1949 and
1950. Marcel’s work fundamentally challenges most of the major positions of the
atheistic existentialists (Sartre, Beauvoir, Camus), especially their belief in an
absurd, meaningless, godless universe. These volumes deal with almost all of
the major themes of Mar-cel’s thought: the nature of philosophy, our broken world,
man’s deep ontological need for being, our incarnate bodily existence, primary and
secondary reflection, participation, being in situation, the identity of the human self,
intersubjectivity, mystery and problem, faith, hope, and the reality of God, and
immortality.

 

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Mystery of Being
Vol. II: Faith and Reality

Gabriel Marcel
198 pages, 6” x 9”, paperback,
$19.00 (£1300)
ISBN: 978-1-890318-86-4, 2001
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