The essays in this volume focus on some of the topics that are shaping recent continental philosophy of religion. These primary topics include self and other, evil and suffering, religion and society and the relation between philosophy and theology. The articles are by an international group of leading contributors to recent continental philosophy of religion.

InhaltsangabeSelf and other: An introduction.- On Hesitation before the Other.- Levinas: thinking least about death-contra Heidegger.- Life, death and (inter)subjectivity: realism and recognition in continental feminism.- Apophasis and the turn of philosophy to religion: From Neoplatonic negative theology to postmodern negation of theology.- From "ghost in the machine" to "spiritual automaton": Philosophical meditation in Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Levinas.- Naming the Unnameable God: Levinas, Derrida, and Marion.- Vision and voice: Phenomenology and theology in the work of Jean-Luc Marion.- Suffering and transcendence.- Otherness and the problem of evil: How does that which is other become evil?.- Repentance and forgiveness: the undoing of time.- An end to evil? Philosophical and political reflections.- Salvaging and secularizing the semantic contents of religion: the limitations of Habermas's postmetaphysical proposal.