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 & Stock Publishers
- | Publication Date: Jun 08, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 150 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1666741639
- | ISBN-13: 9781666741636
