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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.

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"""Jean-Louis Chrétien is a uniquely important Catholic philosopher whose work is a profound response to the giftedness of the world. This collection of essays leads us into the great fecundity of Chrétien's Christian phenomenology and poetry--an outstanding and original set of meditations on a philosopher of prayer, gratitude, and contemplation."" --Simon Oliver, professor of divinity, Durham University ""The voice of Jean-Louis Chrétien resounds unceasingly and still awaits its response. Finitude's Wounded Praise pays homage to the man who left us too soon and whose work remains at once phenomenological, poetic, and literary, as well as theological. There is a particular way of thinking and speaking in line with Chrétien. Each contribution included here bears witness to it, with the word 'gratitude' as the right attitude and key to the understanding."" --Emmanuel Falque, honorary dean, Catholic University of Paris ""I have always respected Jean-Louis Chrétien as a man and scholar. Later, I could admire the philosopher and poet. Recently, I noticed that he had said many things I too have tried to say, though he had said them earlier and better. This book is a fitting tribute to his memory and a testimony to his presence."" --Jean-Yves Lacoste, life member, Clare Hall"

"""Jean-Louis Chrétien is a uniquely important Catholic philosopher whose work is a profound response to the giftedness of the world. This collection of essays leads us into the great fecundity of Chrétien's Christian phenomenology and poetry--an outstanding and original set of meditations on a philosopher of prayer, gratitude, and contemplation."" --Simon Oliver, professor of divinity, Durham University ""The voice of Jean-Louis Chrétien resounds unceasingly and still awaits its response. Finitude's Wounded Praise pays homage to the man who left us too soon and whose work remains at once phenomenological, poetic, and literary, as well as theological. There is a particular way of thinking and speaking in line with Chrétien. Each contribution included here bears witness to it, with the word 'gratitude' as the right attitude and key to the understanding."" --Emmanuel Falque, honorary dean, Catholic University of Paris ""I have always respected Jean-Louis Chrétien as a man and scholar. Later, I could admire the philosopher and poet. Recently, I noticed that he had said many things I too have tried to say, though he had said them earlier and better. This book is a fitting tribute to his memory and a testimony to his presence."" --Jean-Yves Lacoste, life member, Clare Hall"

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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.

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