Edith Wyschogrod is Professor of Philosophy at Queens College, City University of New York. She has written Spirits in Ashes: Hegel, Heidegger and Maan-Made Mass Death and Emmanuel Levinas: The Problem of Ethical Metaphysics. David Crownfield is Professor of Religion and Philosophy at the University of Northern Iowa. Carl A. Raschke is Professor of Religion at the University of Denver. He has written New Dimensions in Philosophical Theology, Theological Thinking, and Religion and the Human Image.

The authors examine implications of Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic theory of discourse for the understanding of theological language. Topics include self, desire, post-structuralism, the unconscious, the father's rule, dwelling (in Heidegger's sense), Anselm, ontological argument, alterity, utopia, signifiers/signifieds, God, reason, and text.