Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-291) and index.

Prayer as the posture of the decentered self / Merold Westphal -- Who prays? Levinas on irremissible responsibility / Jill Robbins -- Becoming what we pray: passion's gentler resolutions / Edward F. Mooney -- Prayer as kenosis / James R. Mensch -- The prayers and tears of Friedrich Nietzsche / Bruce Ellis Benson -- Attention and responsibility: the work of prayer / Norman Wirzba -- Irigaray's Between East and West: breath, pranayama, and the phenomenology of prayer / Cleo McNelly Kearns -- Heidegger and the prospect of a phenomenology of prayer / Benjamin Crowe -- Edith Stein: prayer and interiority / Terrence C. Wright -- "Too deep for words": the conspiracy of a divine "soliloquy" / B. Keith Putt -- Plus de secret: the paradox of prayer / Brian Treanor -- Praise--pure and personal? Jean-Luc Marion's phenomenologies of prayer / Christina M. Gschwandtner -- The saving or sanitizing of prayer: the problem of the sans in Derrida's account of prayer / Mark Gedney -- How (not) to find God in all things: Derrida, Levinas, and St. Ignatius of Loyola on learning how to pray for the impossible / Michael F. Andrews -- Prayer and incarnation: a homiletical reflection / Lissa McCullough -- The infinite supplicant: on a limit and a prayer / Mark Cauchi -- Proslogion / Philip Goodchild.