Marked sharply by its time and place (Paris in the 1970s), this early theological text by Jean-Luc Marion maintains a strikingly deep resonance with his most recent, groundbreaking, and ever more widely discussed phenomenology.

Jean-Luc Marion is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Paris¿Sorbonne Paris IV, Dominique Dubarle Professor of Philosophy at the Institut catholique de Paris, Andrew T. Greely and Grace McNichols Greeley Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and a member of the Academie française.