The Phenomenology of Prayer

Published by Fordham University Press 2006

The Phenomenology of Prayer

Edited by: Bruce Ellis Benson and Norman Wirzba

In the series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823293148

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This collection of ground-breaking essays considers the many dimensions of prayer: how prayer relates us to the divine; prayer's ability to reveal what is essential about our humanity; the power of prayer to transform human desire and action; and the relation of prayer to cognition. It takes up the meaning of prayer from within a uniquely phenomenological point of view, demonstrating that the phenomenology of prayer is as much about the character and boundaries of phenomenological analysis as it is about the heart of religious life. The contributors: Michael F. Andrews, Bruce Ellis Benson, Mark Cauchi, Benjamin Crowe, Mark Gedney, Philip Goodchild, Christina M. Gschwandtner, Lissa McCullough, Cleo McNelly Kearns, Edward F. Mooney, B. Keith Putt, Jill Robbins, Brian Treanor, Merold Westphal, Norman Wirzba, Terence Wright and Terence and James R. Mensch. Bruce Ellis Benson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wheaton College. He is the author of Graven Ideologies: Nietzsche, Derrida, and Marion on Modern Idolatry and The Improvisation of Musical Dialogue: A Phenomenology of Music. Norman Wirzba is Associate Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Georgetown College, Kentucky. He is the author of The Paradise of God and editor of The Essential Agrarian Reader.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I Learning How to Pray
1 Prayer as the Posture of the Decentered Self Merold Westphal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
2 Who Prays? Levinas on Irremissible Responsibility Jill Robbins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
3 Becoming What We Pray: Passion’s Gentler Resolutions Edward F. Mooney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
4 Prayer as Kenosis James R. Mensch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
5 The Prayers and Tears of Friedrich Nietzsche Bruce Ellis Benson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
6 Attention and Responsibility The Work of Prayer Norman Wirzba Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
PART II Praying and the Limits of Phenomenology
7 Irigaray’s Between East and West Breath, Pranayama, and the Phenomenology of Prayer Cleo Mcnelly Kearns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
8 Heidegger and the Prospect of a Phenomenology of Prayer Benjamin Crowe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
9 Edith Stein Prayer and Interiority Terrence C. Wright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
10 ‘‘Too Deep for Words’’ The Conspiracy of a Divine ‘‘Soliloquy’’ B. Keith Putt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
11 Plus de Secret The Paradox of Prayer Brian Treanor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
12 Praise—Pure and Personal? Jean-Luc Marion’s Phenomenologies of Prayer Christina M. Gschwandtner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
PART III Defining Prayer’s Intentionality
13 The Saving or Sanitizing of Prayer The Problem of the Sans in Derrida’s Account of Prayer Mark Gedney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
14 How (Not) to Find God in All Things Derrida, Levinas, and St. Ignatius of Loyola on Learning How to Pray for the Impossible Michael F. Andrews Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
15 Prayer and Incarnation: A Homiletical Reflection Lissa McCullough Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
16 The Infinite Supplicant On a Limit and a Prayer Mark Cauchi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
17 Proslogion Philip Goodchild Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 312

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Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9780823293148