This panel wishes to consider the speculative significance of the categories of internality across soul and spirit in Christian postures of worship, intimacy and charity.Recent Hegelian and theological-metaphysical scholarship has variously interrogated and undone the questionable ‘emic’ corral of religion by an ‘etic’ repertoire of positivist method, upon which rests a wield of speculative warrant and the yield of descriptive secular totality. One may further locate ostensibly neutral philosophical vantages upon the ‘inside’ of religiosity in the ‘postmodern’ radicalism of figures such as Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze. Here, an ‘exteriorising’ transcendental supervision of human historicity, sense and linguisticality seems to refuse any philosophical significance for the cosmic-salvific claims of Christian self-understanding. Yet, if Christian practice inducts the faithful to spiritual, ‘mythopoetic’ indwelling through liturgy and eucharist, do not the theological articulations of subjectivity, phenomenality, grace and reciprocity limn a ‘rival’ apocalyptic condition which, after St Paul, our practice first presumes as the philosophical truth of pneumatic reality? Might then Christian religiosity dare to supply, from ‘inside’, the ‘outer’ of its own theological speculative ground?We welcome a diversity of views and approaches in response, including trinitarian theology, phenomenology, theologies of sacrament, and philosophical hermeneutics of interiority.Chair: Ryan Haecker (University of Cambridge)Speakers: Matthew Fell (University of Cambridge), Wisdom Within, Wisdom Without: Rediscovering the Apocalyptic Paradox of the Augustinian Soul Abraham Wu (University of Cambridge), ‘Looking Again at the Tangled Web’: The Dynamics of Interiority and its Moral Significance in St. Augustine and Iris Murdoch. Alfred Purslow (University of Warwick), Poesis and the Inner Experience of God: On the Poetry of Charles Péguy and Zorica Latcu Teodosi Katherine Apostolacus (Villanova University / University of Cambridge), Althaus-Reid’s Deleuzian Theology of Desire Elise Morrison (University of Cambridge), The Re-enchantment of the Gift: Exchange in Dante’s Paradiso as a Response to Derrida’s Account of Unilateral Donation Aaron Khokhar (University of Cambridge), Writing and Reconciliation: Endō Shūsaku and Maurice Blanchot on the Outside