Awaiting the Impossible (eBook)

A Dialogue with Derrida, Deconstruction, and the Endless Wait for Messiah

See Seng Tan (Autor)

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2022
150 Seiten
Wipf and Stock Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-6667-4164-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This book dialogues with deconstruction's "e;religion without religion"e; and its implications for theology. In the view of many, deconstruction is a purely nihilistic force bent on the wanton destruction of long-held philosophical, religious, and moral traditions. However, this perspective ignores the fact that deconstruction--in the hands of its standard bearers like Jacques Derrida, John Caputo, and others--has all along been a religious exercise in demythologization. Furnishing a Christian rejoinder to deconstruction's claims about and objections to orthodox religion (and particularly to Christianity), the book addresses the following questions: How can deconstruction open a space for an affirmative faith to occur and be professed? Can deconstruction ever be hospitable toward Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah for which it waits?

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.6.2022
• Vorwort: Gordon Wong
• Verlagsort: Eugene
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Schlagworte: Awaiting the Impossible • Christianity • Christian theology • Christology • Deconstruction • Eschatology • Faith • messianic • Modern philosophy: since c 1800 • movements • Philosophy • Religion and beliefs • religion without religion • See Seng Tan • Theology
• ISBN-10: 1-6667-4164-7 / 1666741647
• ISBN-13: 978-1-6667-4164-3 / 9781666741643