Finding a Place for the Idea of God: 
Volume II: An Extended Essay
Exploring Theological Identity, Work and Value
In Our Phenomenological Investigations of the Life-World

(2004-2009, 2014-15, 2020)

On Preparing a Critical Edition of this Volume II

Noël Tointon

	This second volume, in the form of an extended essay, with twelve subdivisions or chapters, was begun in 2004, but, soon after page 710 it was left unfinished whilst I worked on a number of other projects (primarily, the volume of essays titled Re-Self-Organization). Around 2009, on restarting this second volume, I took a different tack, namely, among other things, an examination of the theological discipline as a ‘discipline’, disciplines in general, and, the application of such research to the philosophical discipline in particular. Later, in 2014, in attempting to edit this essay, I tried to edit its first sections in the light of innovations introduced and discussed in those latter sections written around 2009. After attempting this task and editing about one hundred pages or so perceived that I was doing this text a great injustice in trying to harmonize this first section with its latter half completed around 2009. This overall text is definitely in need of editing, but, this task of textual harmonization, begun 2013 and left unfinished in 2014 would now be an even more impossible task given that much more water has passed beneath that bridge of time. Consequently, sections in rich text format are to be regarded as earlier and should be preserved; albeit subjected to a well-needed process of ‘normal’ editing. I have left the edited version as it has some merit in indicating where normal editing should head and where textual harmonization should be overlooked… 

Immersed in other projects, I doubt this text, along with many others, would ever see a process of normal editing being conducted by myself. With such defects in mind, I trust the reader might accept my excuse of having an insufficiency of time in order to oversee this more basic process of editing….

	           						        Noël Tointon, Wentworth Falls, 1.3.20.