Art, Desire, and God

Kevin G. Grove is Assistant Professor of Systematic (Philosophical) Theology at the University of Notre Dame, USA.Christopher Rios-Sueverkruebbe holds a Ph.D. in theology from the University of Notre Dame, USA.Taylor J. Nutter holds a Ph.D. in theology from the University of Notre Dame, USA.

• List of Colour PlatesAcknowledgements Introduction, Kevin Grove, Christopher Rios-Sueverkruebbe, and Taylor Nutter (all of University of Notre Dame, USA)Part I: Embodied Experience in Art and Film1. Call and Response: Negation and the Configuration of Desire, Férdia Stone-Davis (Lady Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, University of Cambridge, UK)2. Making Sense in the Midst of Non-Sense: Félix Ravaisson and George Rickey as a Way Forward for Emmanuel Falque, Tyler Holley (University of Aberdeen, UK)3. Perspective in Nicholas of Cusa and the Rise of the Transcendental Subject, Nathan D. Pederson (Loyola University Chicago, USA)4. Desirous Seeing: Sol LeWitt, Vision, and Paradox, Daniel Lightsey (Southern Methodist University, USA)5. Memory and Desire for God in Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder, Jake Grefenstette (University of Cambridge, UK)6. Life in the Heart of Cinema: Michel Henry’s New Phenomenology and Cinematic Form, Joseph Kickasola, (Baylor University, USA)Part II: Carnal Encounter7. Scandal in the Cornaro Chapel: Desire for God and the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, Martha Reineke (University of Northern Iowa, USA)8. Art and Desire in the Song of Songs, Richard Kearney (Boston College, USA)9. The Touch of God: Woundedness and Desire in James Baldwin and Jean-Louis Chrétien, Thomas Breedlove (Baylor University, USA)Part III: Incarnate Performance10. Of God and Trout Fishing: A Phenomenology of Reeligious Life, J. Aaron Simmons (Furman University, USA)11. The Prescription of Liturgy for the Problem of Blindness in the Thought of Jean-Luc Marion, Christina George (Sterling College, USA)12. Beauty, Sacrament, and the Road to Emmaus, Wendy Theresa Crosby (Siena Heights University, USA)13. The Saturated Flesh of Christ: Christology, Aesthetics, and Subjectivity in Jean-Luc Marion and M. Shawn Copeland, David de la Fuente (Fordham University, USA)List of ContributorsIndex

Art and art practice necessarily involve the phenomenological. However, scholarly introductions to this inherent aspect (or requirement) of the arts rarely engage this reality with sufficient depth, let alone creativity and attention. Art, Desire, and God sets a high standard for studies in aesthetics, showing how art, phenomenology, and theology are mutually donative, helping us become better at seeing things in and of themselves.