Phenomenology, as a particular idiom or style of philosophical reflection, is one not wholly free of theological supposition. Perhaps the learned consensus in the academy today is that philosophical discourse, without first abandoning its judicious commitment to rigor and principled reason, never may have meaningful and fruitful interchange with theology. In many contemporary French currents of phenomenology that flow through to the wider discourse of philosophy of religion there have been strong theological inclinations at play for some time now, whose collective force is able to keep at bay those impulses that might otherwise reconfigure the relationship between philosophy and theology into an antithetical imperative. The inner constitution of philosophy and theology, as recent voices have articulated it, has been strengthened by a spirituality that advances the creature's desire for God under the form of a particular philosophical articulation, the phenomenological reduction, which