Abstract
Jean-Luc Marion offered three suggestions as to how Thomas's God might be seen as liberated from Being. The first section of this article sketches the background to the quest for a God without Being. In the second section, it is argued that the meaning of Being, as given in Thomas by esse, fails to completely determine the meaning of esse, and, in fact, points intrinsically to the existence of further meaning for esse. “Being” is thus an icon rather than an idol of God, that which does not substitute itself for what it points to.
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