Ordinary and Extraordinary

On important points, phenomenology and Christianity meet without possibility of assimilation. At the threshold of their encounter, each learns more of what it truly is from a realization of what it is not. The texts collected here are oriented by this conviction, and pursue an account of Christian experience within the limits that it anticipates. Essays on topics such as prayer, theophany, and the theological virtues develop positive analyses until arriving at phenomena that must remain contested by the two approaches. The work as a whole also begins to outline an interpretation of the Christian relation to the emergence of the secular in North Atlantic culture.