ABSTRACT
This chapter explore significant (post)modern writers who have embraced desire as one of their central concerns. It begins with the French philosopher Simone Weil. Weil suggests that desire consists of being attuned to the divine by the cultivation of an aura of attentive waiting. Seamus Heaney in his lecture The Redress of Poetry refers to Weil's Gravity and Grace which is informed by ‘ the idea of counterweighting, of balancing out the forces, of redress, tilting the scales of reality towards some transcendent equilibrium’ as he seeks to address an overriding aim of poetry. The French geologist Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin adds a fresh cosmic dimension to the theology of desire. Karl Rahner bases his theology of desire on an understanding of the mystery of the deus absconditus, the hiddeness of God which:is the source of truth for man, which is freely bestowed on him, and determines his identity.
