TY - BOOK TI - The Phenomenology of Prayer SN - 9780283824968 AV - .T374.T447 PY - 2005/// CY - New York, New York PB - Fordham University Press KW - Prayer KW - Religious Studies N1 - PennsylvaniaRT I: LEARNING HOW TO Puerto RicoAY --; Prayer as the posture of the decentered self; Merold Westphal --; Who prays? Levinas on irremissible resolnsibility; 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 Niezsche; Bruce Ellis Benson --; Attention and responsibility: the work of prayer; Norman Wirzba; PennsylvaniaRT II: Puerto RicoAYING AND THE LIMITS OF PHENOMENOLOGY --; 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 --; Plus de secret: the paradox of prayer; Brian Treanor --; Praise - Pureand personal? Jean-Luc Marion's phenomenologies of prayer; Christina M. Gschwandtner; PennsylvaniaRT III: DelawareFINING Puerto RicoAYER'S IndianaTENTIONALITY --; The saving or sanitizing of prayer: the problem of the sans in Derrid's account of prayer; Mark Gedney --; How (not) to find God in all things: Derrida, Levinas, and St. Ignatius of loyola on learnign how to pray for the impossible; Michael F. Andrews --; Prayer and incarnation: a homiletical reflection; Lissa McCulllough --; The infinite supplicant: on a limit and a prayer; Mark Cauchi --; Proslogion/ Philip Goodchild; 2 N2 - 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 ER -