Awaiting The Impossible: A Dialogue With Derrida, Deconstruction, And The Endless Wait For Messiah

This book dialogues with deconstruction’s “religion without religion” 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?

• | Author: See Seng Tan
• | Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• | Publication Date: Jun 08, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 150 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Philosophy
• | ISBN-10: 1666741620
• | ISBN-13: 9781666741629