Welcoming Finitude - (Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought) by Christina M Gschwandtner (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><i>Welcoming Finitude</i> provides a philosophical (i.e., phenomenological) examination of the experience of liturgy, based on the example of Orthodox Christian liturgy, as it manifests in terms of time, space, corporeality, senses, affect, and the interaction with other people. It thus uncovers some of the basic structures of religious ritual experience.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>What does it mean to experience and engage in religious ritual? How does liturgy structure time and space? How do our bodies move within liturgy, and what impact does it have on our senses? How does the experience of ritual affect us and shape our emotions or dispositions? How is liturgy experienced as a communal event, and how does it form the identity of those who participate in it? <i>Welcoming Finitude</i> explores these broader questions about religious experience by focusing on the manifestation of liturgical experience in the Eastern Christian tradition. Drawing on the methodological tools of contemporary phenomenology and on insights from liturgical theology, the book constitutes a philosophical exploration of Orthodox liturgical experience.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Gschwandtner writes with a welcome transparency and obvious wellspring of knowledge that runs extremely deep. . . . [S]cholars of whatever sort will find food for thought in Gschwandtner's work and an addition to the subfield of the phenomenology of religion that is ready for comparison with other studies that either do not overtly cover liturgical matters or do so from a differing tradition.-- "Phenomenological Reviews"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Christina M. Gschwandtner</b> teaches Continental Philosophy of Religion at Fordham University. She is the author of <i>Reading Jean-Luc Marion: Exceeding Metaphysics</i>; <i>Postmodern Apologetics? Arguments about God in Contemporary Philosophy</i> (Fordham); <i>Degrees of Givenness: On Saturation in Jean-Luc Marion</i>; and <i>Marion and Theology</i>, besides articles and translations at the intersection of phenomenology and religion.
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