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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Phenomenology, Experience, and the Spiritual Life -- PART I: Phenomenologists in Theological Mode -- 1. Lived Experience and Faith: Transcendental Phenomenological Prolegomena -- 2. Husserl and God -- 3. Intersubjectivity, Ethics, and the Christic Dimension in Husserl's Transcendental Phenomenology -- 4. The Later Heidegger and Theology -- 5. Phenomenology and Theology in Heidegger's Reading of Schelling -- 6. From Love to Auto-affection: Divine Revelation in Fichte's Religionslehre and Michel Henry's Radical Phenomenology -- PART II: Theological Themes -- 7. Incarnational Phenomenology -- 8. A Phenomenological Reading of the Resurrection -- 9. A Phenomenological Approach to Ritual Practices -- 10. Becoming Living Works of Art: A Phenomenology of Liturgy -- 11. Phenomenology of the Gift (and Grace) -- 12. Kierkegaard and the Phenomenology of Patience -- 13. The Enigma of Suffering in Phenomenology and Theology -- 14. The Gift of Joy -- PART III: Phenomenological Readings of Theological Classics -- 15. Temporality and Signification: The Augustinian Constitution of Time -- 16. Denys the Areopagite among the Phenomenologists -- 17. To Live and Think without Why: Eckhart's Affinities with Phenomenology -- 18. The Prospects of a Christian Phenomenology in Karl Rahner -- PART IV: Reaching out beyond the Theological Enclave -- 19. Invoking the God, Welcoming the Stranger -- 20. Religion without Religion -- 21. Phenomenology, Theology, and Religious Studies -- 22. Hinduism and Phenomenology -- Index.

"This book focuses on the relationships between phenomenology and theology, which have been varied and complex but seem currently in an inconclusive and loosely defined state. Methodological rigour is not much in evidence, and the two disciplines continue to defy any authoritative synthesis. While both disciplines grapple with questions concerning the fundamental structures of human experience, their relation is troubled by the elusive roles of Revelation and faith, which threaten the scientific autonomy of philosophy on one side and disable theologians for consistent philosophical discourse on the other. This volume revisits that conundrum from various perspectives, as it at once repristinates some of the most vibrant points of encounter and opens possibilities for new beginnings. It begins with the theological musings into which leading phenomenologists have been drawn from the start, with special reference to Husserl, Heidegger, Michel Henry, as well as backward glances to Fichte, Schelling, and Blondel. A second section takes up specific theological themes and examines how phenomenological approaches can refine thinking on them. These include the Incarnation, the Resurrection, the Eucharist, Grace, and Prayer. A dialogue between phenomenology and classical theologians is staged in the third section: Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, Eckhart, Karl Rahner. The closing section ranges more widely, discussing atheism, non-realist theology, and Hinduism from phenomenological angles, and showing how these topics too come within the ambit of theology"--