A Singular Question: Mitsein, συνουσια, and υφος The Unsaid in Postmodernity’s Transcending: Devaluing God

Abstract

In beginning, I owe a great many debts of thanks. First and foremost to Lieven Boeve, whose invitation and encouragement first brought me to Leuven to undertake the research that eventually became Postmodernity’s Transcending: Devaluing God, and to the Faculty of Theology, for the welcome they gave me over nearly two years between April 2002 and December 2003. Once again, and with great intellectual and spiritual generosity I was welcomed into this scholarly community for the sake of the conference of which this was the opening paper...