ABSTRACT

This book explores the threshold between phenomenology and lived religion in dialogue with three French luminaries: Michel Henry, Jean-Luc Marion, and Jean-Yves Lacoste. Through close reading and critical analysis, each chapter touches on how a liturgical and ritual setting or a spiritual vision of the body can shape and ultimately structure the experience of an individual’s surrounding world. The volume advances debate about the scope and limits of the phenomenological analysis of religious themes and disturbs the assumption that theology and phenomenology are incapable of constructive interdisciplinary dialogue.

part I|52 pages

Horizonality

chapter 2|31 pages

Affection and the horizon of experience

part II|47 pages

Michel Henry and life

chapter 3|14 pages

Incarnate self

The night of love

chapter 5|16 pages

The spirit of empathy

part III|61 pages

Jean-Luc Marion and the gift

chapter 6|16 pages

Selving

L'adonné and ethics

chapter 7|23 pages

Spiritual exercises

An Augustinian reduction

part IV|71 pages

Jean-Yves Lacoste and liturgy

chapter 9|26 pages

Spiritual life

Angst, peace, love

chapter 10|23 pages

Lived experience and metaphysics in theology

chapter 11|20 pages

The body and eucharistic experience

part |10 pages

Postscript

chapter 12|8 pages

Sacramental worldhood