Phenomenology & the "Theological Turn" brings together in a single volume the debate over Dominique Janicaud's critique of the "theological turn" of French phenomenology as represented by the works of Emmanuel Levinas, Paul Ricoeur, Jean-Luc Marion, Jean-Francois Courtine, Jean-Louis Chretien & Michael Henry. According to Janicaud, these theologically oriented philosophers have subverted the classical orientation of phenomenology toward the "things themselves" in favor of a giving beyond all measure & certainly beyond the measure of phenomenological method. Marion & his colleagues seek to give phenomenological credentials to an absolute experience, an experience of the absolute, that is strictly religious & hence, Janicaud contends, outside the bounds of phenomenology's methodological strictures. In the second part, Courtine, Marion, Chretien, Henry & Ricoeur address the possibility of a phenomenology of religion as a philosophical, not a theological, project. Their approach is premised on the idea that philosophical discourse can describe religious phenomena through a phenomenology of donation (giveness) that is able to describe religious phenomena without sacrificing their claim to absoluteness & irreducibility.