Acknowledgments

Abbreviations of Main Texts Cited

Introduction: Finitude and the Naming of God

One The Deaths of God in Hegel: Overcoming Finitude and Religious Representation

Two The Temporal Experience of Consciousness: Hegel's Difference of Consciousness and Heidegger's Ontological Difference

Three The Naming of God in Hegel's Speculative Proposition: The Circle of Language and Annulment of the Singular

Four The Mortal Difference: Death and the Possibility of Existence in Heidegger

Five Transcending Negation: The Causal Nothing and Ecstatic Being in Pseudo-Dionysius's Theology

Six The Naming of God and the Possibility of Impossibility: Marion and Derrida between the Theology and Phenomenology of the Gift

Conclusion: The Apophatic Analogy

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