Approaching the question of limit-phenomena within phenomenology is not an easy task. For this reason, it seems appropriate, from a systematic point of view, to introduce a distinction that concerns two closely interrelated issues, which nonetheless deserve to be treated separately. The first concerns the analysis of specific phenomena that escape direct intuition and elude intentional...
Within the phenomenological tradition, few experiences have received as much sustained attention as religious experience. Among its various forms, prayer occupies a central place. This chapter interprets Christian prayer as a limit experience par excellence . The limit concerns the complex relation between possibility and impossibility. Prayer is inhabited by different senses of the impossible,...