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Questioning God / edited by John D. Caputo, Mark Dooley, and Michael J. Scanlon
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caputo, John D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christianity.
- Derrida, Jacques.
- Forgiveness.
- Forgiveness--Religious aspects--Christianity--C.
- Religious aspects.
- Local Subjects:
- Christianity.
- Derrida, Jacques.
- Forgiveness.
- Forgiveness--Religious aspects--Christianity--C.
- Religious aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (392 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 15 insightful essays, Jacques Derrida and an international group of scholars of religion explore postmodern thinking about God and consider the nature of forgiveness in relation to the paradoxes of the gift. Among the themes addressed by contributors are the possibilities of imagining God as unthinkable, imagining God as non-patriarchal, imagining a return to Augustine, and imagining an age in which praise is far more important than narrative. Questioning God moves readers beyond the parameters of m
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: God Forgive; ONE To Forgive: The Unforgivable and the Imprescriptible; TWO On Forgiveness: A Roundtable Discussion with Jacques Derrida; THREE Returning/Forgiving: Ethics and Theology; FOUR Forgiveness and Incarnation; FIVE The Catastrophe of Memory: Derrida, Milbank, and the (Im)possibility of Forgiveness; SIX: The God Who May Be; SEVEN ""Absolute Interruption"": On Faith; EIGHT Questioning Narratives of God: The Immeasurable in Measures; NINE ""Idipsum"": Divine Selfhood and the Postmodern Subject; TEN The Humiliated Self as the Rhetorical Self
- ELEVEN Questioning GodTWELVE What Do I Love When I Love My God? Deconstruction and Radical Orthodoxy; THIRTEEN The Scandals of the Sign: The Virgin Mary as Supplement in the Religions of the Book; FOURTEEN Being, Subjectivity, Otherness: The Idols of God; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9780253108675
- 9781282066137
- 1282066137
- 9780253108678
- 0253108675
- OCLC:
- 56612621
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