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In giving thanks, the heart gives thought to what it has and what it is.

The heart, thus giving thought and thus being memory, gives itself

in thought to that to which it is held.

—Martin Heidegger, What Is Called Thinking?

This book is the culmination of my doctoral studies at Drew University, and I gratefully acknowledge the professors with whom I worked on this project. Thank you to Professors Robert Corrington, Charles Courtney, Catherine Keller, and Stephen Moore for their encouragement, insights, and the many engaging conversations we shared as we carefully thought through this phenomenological analysis together. I extend special thanks to Robert Corrington for his work as my dissertation advisor, for his generous foreword, and for his continuing friendship.

Thank you to my colleagues at Drew University for the many friendships that so enriched my experience of graduate school and formed the intellectual community in which my work thrived and came to fruition. At Drew I found engaging conversation partners, supportive colleagues, and lasting friends.

My thanks also go to my editors at Wipf and Stock for their encouragement throughout this project as well as their work in bringing the manuscript to publication. I am thankful to Fordham University Press for their permission to include a revised and expanded version of my essay, “Let It Be: Finding Grace with God in the Gelassenheit of the Annunciation,” published in Apophatic Bodies: Negative Theology, Incarnation, and Relationality, as chapter 4 of this book.

Finally, I am deeply grateful for my family, who instilled in me a love of learning and who encouraged me throughout my graduate studies. I give very special thanks for my wonderful daughters—Glenna Caitlin, Alanna Rose, and Fiona Brigid—whose love holds my heart and gathers my world.

August 15, 2013

Feast of the Assumption