The Phenomenology of Prayer (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0823224961 ISBN 13: 9780823224968

Publisher: Fordham University Press, 2005

Synopsis

This collection of ground-breaking essays considers the many dimensions of prayer: how prayer relates us to the divine; prayer's ability to reveal what is essential about our humanity; the power of prayer to transform human desire and action; and the relation of prayer to cognition. It takes up the meaning of prayer from within a uniquely phenomenological point of view, demonstrating that the phenomenology of prayer is as much about the character and boundaries of phenomenological analysis as it is about the heart of religious life.

The contributors: Michael F. Andrews, Bruce Ellis Benson, Mark Cauchi, Benjamin Crowe, Mark Gedney, Philip Goodchild, Christina M. Gschwandtner, Lissa McCullough, Cleo McNelly Kearns, Edward F. Mooney, B. Keith Putt, Jill Robbins, Brian Treanor, Merold Westphal, Norman Wirzba, Terence Wright and Terence and James R. Mensch.

Bruce Ellis Benson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wheaton College. He is the author of Graven Ideologies: Nietzsche, Derrida, and Marion on Modern Idolatry and The Improvisation of Musical Dialogue: A Phenomenology of Music.

Norman Wirzba is Associate Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Georgetown College, Kentucky. He is the author of The Paradise of God and editor of The Essential Agrarian Reader.

About this title

About the Author:

Bruce Ellis Benson is Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University.

Review:

The volume is effective, no doubt, because the analysis of prayer flows at least, in part, out of the practices of prayer; in which case what we have here is not just an intracontinental philosophical discussion but, unexpectedly and pleasantly so, an ecumenical forum of prayerful performances. (―Religious Studies Review)

This collection of seventeen papers deals with Christian and Jewish prayer from a philosophical perspective. . . (―International Review of Biblical Studies)

About this edition

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0823224961
• ISBN 13: 9780823224968
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Benson Bruce Ellis, Wirzba Norman