The Appearing of God

An independent scholar living and working in Paris, Jean-Yves Lacoste has taught at Universities throughout Europe and the United States, and is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Having worked extensively in the translation and publication of theological and philosophical reference works, his has since come to be regarded as one of the most interesting of contemporary French philosophers working at the border between philosophy and theology, the focus of a body of secondary literature and credited by Jean-Luc Marion with 'uncluttering the horizon of Fundamental Theology decisively'. In 2002 he received the Prix Laurentin of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques.Oliver O'Donovan held chairs in Oxford and Edinburgh, and is now an Honorary Professor at the University of St Andrews. An Anglican priest, he is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His publications include Resurrection and Moral Order (1986), The Desire of the Nations (1996), The Ways of Judgment (2005), Self, World and Time, Finding and Seeking (2013-4), and Entering into Rest (2017). He is also the translator of Persons, by Robert Spaemann (2006).

• Translator's Foreword Preliminary 1: The Missing Frontier: Philosophy and Theology in the hilosophical Fragments 2: Perception, Transcendence, and the Knowledge of God 3: Appearance without Reduction 4: The Knowledge and Love of God: Beyond 'Faith and Reason' 5: Existence and Love of God: Remarks on a Note in Being and Time 6: Anticipation 7: Giving and Promising 8: From Present Self to Future Self 9: Resurrectio Carnis: Theological Study and Knowledge in Worship

The French text is ably and elegantly translated by Oliver O'Donovan, whose scholarly reputation and accomplishments are unquestioned.