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Title The phenomenology of prayer / edited by Bruce Ellis Benson and Norman Wirzba
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 298 pages)
Series Perspectives in continental philosophy, 1089-3938 ; no. 46
Perspectives in continental philosophy ; no. 46. 1089-3938
Contents 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
Summary This collection of groundbreaking essays considers the many dimensions of prayer, and takes up the meaning of prayer from within a uniquely phenomenological point of view
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-291) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Prayer.
Phenomenology.
phenomenology.
RELIGION -- Prayer.
RELIGION -- General.
PHILOSOPHY -- Religious.
Phenomenology
Prayer
Form Electronic book
Author Benson, Bruce Ellis, 1960-
Wirzba, Norman
ISBN 9780823235797
0823235793
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9781423796442
9780823248278
0823248275
9780823224975
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