What Is Thinking?

Abstract

Human thought is founded upon the relationship between subject and object. A space in which subject and object meet, each in the other while remaining distinct, allows for a rediscovery of the roots of thought, but also leads to sacrificing monological thought. Having reached its limits, thought becomes prayer and asks Christ, the Word of God’s Thought who is God, what it means to think. On the cross Christ offers himself as the non-answer, the failure of the word, and precisely in this way he reveals how the Son-Word receives Himself as the One spoken and thought by the Father and who re-gives himself to the Father in the Spirit. For us too, who are words in the Word, to think is to receive ourselves as spoken and thought by God in the Spirit, who is the space where subject and object communicate to one another their diversity in unity and their unity in diversity.