As a phenomenologist Lacoste is concerned with investigating the human aptitude for experience; as a theologian Lacoste is interested in humanity s potential for a relationship with the divine, what he terms the liturgical relationship . Beginning from the proposition that prayer is a theme that occurs throughout Lacoste s writing, and using this proposition as a heuristic through which to view, interpret and critique his thought, this book examines Lacoste s place amid both the recent theological turn in French thought and the post-war emergence of la nouvelle theologie. Drawing upon...