Why have religious philosophers and theologians been drawn to phenomenology in particular? The essays in this forum suggest several answers…
Sarah Shortall
Sarah Shortall is assistant professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Soldiers of God in a Secular World: The Politics of Catholic Theology in Twentieth-Century France (forthcoming, Harvard University Press) and the coeditor of a volume of essays titled Christianity and Human Rights Reconsidered (Cambridge University Press, 2020). In addition to these projects, her work has appeared in Past & Present, Modern Intellectual History, the Journal of the History of Ideas, Boston Review, and Commonweal.
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