In seven essays that draw from metaphysics, phenomenology, literature, Christological theology, and Biblical exegesis,Marion sketches several prolegomena to a future fuller thinking and saying of loves paradoxical reasons, exploring evil, freedom, bedazzlement, and the loving gaze; crisis, absence, and knowing. . . . [Marion] is one of the most provocative thinkers working on the boundaries of philosophy and theology today. . . .[Prolegomena to Charity] represents such a theological workrich, insightful, and constructively traversing 'phenomenology as well as the most straightforwardly Christological theology.' Choice