Finitude's Wounded Praise: Responses to Jean-Louis Chr騁ien - Paperback

by Philip John Paul Gonzales (Editor), Joseph Micah McMeans (Editor)

The late Jean-Louis Chretien's responsorial and polyphonic style of thinking is nothing less than a performance of gratitude, which manifests the many ways and manners that our wounded finitude is graced and blessed along the peregrine path of human existence. Finitude's Wounded Praise: Responses to Jean-Louis Chretien is a receptive celebratory response to the immense fecundity and potential of Chretien's "thank you" of gratitude. This volume gathers leading Chretien scholars and thinkers to explicate, explore, think with, and commemorate his thought. The essays in the volume engage Chretien's work from three primary fields: phenomenological, literary/poetic, and theological. Finitude's Wounded Praise is a diverse, exploratory, and impressive testament to the expansive and enduring richness of Chretien's oeuvre.

Author Biography

Philip John Paul Gonzales is a permanent lecturer in philosophy at St. Patrick's Pontifical University, Ireland. He is author of Reimagining the Analogia Entis: The Future of Erich Przywara's Christian Vision and editor of Exorcising Philosophical Modernity: Cyril O'Regan and Christian Discourse after Modernity. He is currently one of the twelve recipients of the major Widening Horizons in Philosophical Theology grant, St. Andrews, funded by Templeton Religion Trust.



Joseph Micah McMeans is a doctoral student at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth. His research and publications center on the emerging field of continental philosophy of religion, with special attention given to the intersection between contemporary ontological research in the Eastern Orthodox tradition (Christos Yannaras) and the "theological turn" in French phenomenology.