Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Kevin G. Grove, Christopher C. Rios, Taylor J. Nutter -- Part 1: Embodied experience in art and film. Call and response : negation and the configuration of desire / Ferdia J. Stone-Davis -- Making sense in the midst on non-sense : Felix Ravaisson and George Rickey as a way forward for Emmanuel Falque / Tyler Holley -- Perspective in Nicholas of Cusa and the rise of the transcendental subject / Nathan D. Pedersen -- Desirous seeing : Sol LeWitt, vision and paradox / Daniel Adam Lightsey -- Memory and desire for God in Terrence Malick's To the Wonder / Jake Grefenstette -- Life in the heart of cinema : Michel Henry's new phenomenology and cinematic form / Joseph G. Kickasola -- Part 2: Carnal encounter. Scandal in the Cornaro Chapel : desire for God and The Ecstasy of St Teresa / Martha Reineke -- Art and desire in the Song of Songs / Richard Kearney -- The touch of God : woundedness and desire in James Baldwin and Jean-Louis Chretien / Thomas Breedlove -- Part 3: Incarnate performance. Of God and trout fishing : a phenomenology of religious life / J. Aaron Simmons -- The prescription of liturgy for the problem of blindness in the thought of Jean-Luc Marion / Christina George -- Beauty, sacrament, and the road to Emmaus / Wendy Crosby -- The saturated flesh of Christ : Christology, aesthetics, and subjectivity in Jean-Luc Marion and M. Shawn Copeland / David de la Fuente.

"Bringing together thinkers from philosophy of religion, religious studies, music, art, and film, while drawing on a wealth of phenomenological resources and methods, a team of renowned scholars provide new vantages on the question of how art is an expression of the human desire for God. In three interrelated parts, chapters employ phenomenological tools to propose new ways for speaking of the desire for God. Scholars first draw upon music, sculpture, film, and painting to develop ways of expressing diverse philosophical and religious aspects characteristic of aesthetic experience. The discussion then opens up to examine the mystical and wounded aspects of embodied interface with God. The final part investigates embodied aesthetic praxis in philosophy of religion and religious studies"-- Provided by publisher.