ABSTRACT
Michel Henry subtitles, C'est moi la verite (1996), the first book of his trilogy on Christianity, 'pour une philosophie du christianisme'. For Henry, all the things, including those that Aquinas discusses, occur in the sphere of ecstatic intentionality whereas his task is to elucidate an enstatic, non-intentional phenomenology and to establish its priority with respect to intentional consciousness. For Henry, life contrasts radically with externality, and it has nothing to do with biology. For Henry, it is the self-revelation of life that supplies the abiding ground of phenomenology, thereby making non-intentional analysis anterior to intentional analysis. Of course the Christianity that Henry describes is eschatological but so is his philosophy before it is a philosophy of Christianity. Eschatology is usually regarded as the doctrine of consummation, the movement from emptiness to fullness of life, from the old being in Adam to the new being in Christ.
