God without being : hors-texte / Jean-Luc Marion ; translated by Thomas A. Carlson ; with a foreword by David Tracy ; and a new preface by Jean-Luc Marion.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreward -- Translator's Acknowledgments -- Preface to the English edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Envoi -- God without being -- The idol and the icon -- First visible -- Invisible mirror -- Dazzling return -- Conceptual idol -- Icon of the invisible -- The face envisages -- Visible mirror of the invisible -- The icon in the concept -- Double idolatry -- The function of the idol -- The ambivalence of the conceptual idol -- Metaphysics and the idol -- The screen of being -- Note on the divine and related subjects -- The crossing of being -- The silence of the idol -- The ontological impediment -- Being or else (the good) -- The indifference to be -- The inessential name thus first -- The reverse of vanity -- Suspension -- Boredom -- Vanity of vanities -- As if -- Melancholia -- Of the eucharistic site of theology -- Let it be said -- The foreclosed event -- The eucharistic hermeneutic -- Whereof we speak -- The delay to interpretation -- Hors-texte -- The present and the gift -- One or the other idolatry -- Consciousness and the immediate -- Metaphysical or christic temporality -- The memorial -- Epektasis -- From day to day -- The gift of presence -- The urgency of contemplation -- The last rigor -- Predication -- Performance -- Conversions -- Martyrdom -- Thomas Aquinas and onto-theo-logy -- The construction of the question -- The characteristics of onto-theo-logy -- The object of metaphysica -- Esse commune and the analogy -- Cause and foundation -- The causa sui -- The horizon and the name of being -- Answer to the question: esse without being.

Jean-Luc Marion is one of the world & amp;rsquo;s foremost philosophers of religion as well as one of the leading Catholic thinkers of modern times. In God Without Being, Marion challenges a fundamental premise of traditional philosophy, theology, and metaphysics: that God, before all else, must be. Taking a characteristically postmodern stance and engaging in passionate dialogue with Heidegger, he locates a & amp;ldquo;God without Being & amp;rdquo; in the realm of agape, or Christian charity and love. If God is love, Marion contends, then God loves before he actually is. First translated into English in 1991.

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