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The phenomenology of prayer / edited by Bruce Ellis Benson and Norman Wirzba. - 1st ed. - New York : Fordham University Press, 2005. - viii, 298 p. ; 23 cm. - Perspectives in continental philosophy, no. 46 1089-3938 ; . - Perspectives in continental philosophy ; no. 46. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-291) and index.

Prayer as the posture of the decentered self / Merold Westphal -- Who prays? Levinas on irremissible responsibility / Jill Robbins -- Becoming what we pray: passion's gentler resolutions / Edward F. Mooney -- Prayer as kenosis / James R. Mensch -- The prayers and tears of Friedrich Nietzsche / Bruce Ellis Benson -- Attention and responsibility: the work of prayer / Norman Wirzba -- Irigaray's Between East and West: breath, pranayama, and the phenomenology of prayer / Cleo McNelly Kearns -- Heidegger and the prospect of a phenomenology of prayer / Benjamin Crowe -- Edith Stein: prayer and interiority / Terrence C. Wright -- "Too deep for words": the conspiracy of a divine "soliloquy" / B. Keith Putt -- Plus de secret: the paradox of prayer / Brian Treanor -- Praise--pure and personal? Jean-Luc Marion's phenomenologies of prayer / Christina M. Gschwandtner -- The saving or sanitizing of prayer: the problem of the sans in Derrida's account of prayer / Mark Gedney -- 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 -- Prayer and incarnation: a homiletical reflection / Lissa McCullough -- The infinite supplicant: on a limit and a prayer / Mark Cauchi -- Proslogion / Philip Goodchild.

ISBN: 0823224953 (hardcover) 0823224961 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2005017145

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA575719 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013288014 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Phenomenology.
Prayer.

LC Class. No.: BL560 / .P48 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 204.3 / B443p