The article attempts to offer a presentation of Scannone’s views on metaphysics and its relationship with religion and phenomenology. It focuses on his book Religion y nuevo pensamiento (Religion and New Thought), and examines (i) the phenomenological context and the anchorage searched for metaphysics in Iberian America, (ii) three sources that strongly inspired his meditation regarding the transgression of reality (Blondel), the self-implication of language (Ladrière) and the metá-function (Ricoeur), and iii) his own development of these three themes. This development concerns a movement of meaning that begins before the gift of the Sacred Mystery and ends beyond the use of analogy in the motivation of pragmatic consequences. The purpose is to outline the horizons, background and content of his views on metaphysics, and iv) to suggest an elucidation of the previous point in the light of the metá-function in order to show, resorting to an expression of which he was very fond, that his philosophy “gives something to think and what to think”.