ABSTRACT
The feud between Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger is instructive, since Jean-Yves Lacoste's own position will borrow elegantly from both, while leaving neither completely unchanged. Lacoste's account of liturgy accordingly emphasizes this sense in which our being-before-God is not only a matter of feeling. The Heideggerian logic of place indicates a distinction that, though perhaps present implicitly in 1927, was never formulated there directly. The world and earth therefore denote more than two distinct collections of beings; they name two different ways of being. Lacoste writes, World and earth, it must be noted, are not two beings, but two modes of a relation to being "as a whole," or again, two modes of being-in-place. By liturgy, Lacoste does not primarily or only signify the rituals of ecclesial worship. Instead, he means anything at all that concerns our relating ourselves to God.
