ABSTRACT

The article introduces and critically explores a series of autobiographical texts produced in the early 1990s by world-famous British and American philosophers depicting their personal journeys towards discovering or rediscovering religious faith. The analysis is developed into two sections: first, it identifies a series of major aspects on which contemporary philosophical and theological debates on narrative theory converge; second, it shows how the theoretical aspects of the conversion narrative (the conversion of life into text, the conversion of a philosopher to religious faith, the conversion of the believer, understood as the appropriation of his/her life by an entire community as yet another example of communal practice, and ultimately, the conversion of the entire community to the philosophical ideals preached by the new convert) pose philosophical challenges to each author.

摘要

本文介绍并批判性地探索了1990年代初由举世闻名的英美哲学家创作的一系列自传文本，描述了他们为发现或重新发现宗教信仰而进行的个人旅行。该分析分为两个部分：第一，它确定了叙事理论的当代哲学和神学辩论所汇聚的一系列主要方面；其次，它显示了转换叙事的理论方面（生命转换为文本，哲学家转换为宗教信仰，信徒的转换）被理解为整个社区对他/她的生活的占有。社区实践的另一个例子，最终，