Postmodern Theory and Biblical Theology: Vanquishing God's Shadow
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 1st Edition, 12/7/1995
EAN 9780521568401, ISBN10: 0521568404
Paperback, 304 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
This book explores the relationship between postmodernism and Christianity. Whereas deconstructionists claim all religious discourses can be radically undermined, Ingraffia argues that the version of Christianity constructed by Nietzsche, Heidegger and especially Derrida ignores Christianity's unique ontological status. This truth, Ingraffia claims, is an unacknowledged influence on leading postmodernist thinkers, thereby demonstrating the priority of the Judaeo-Christian tradition over secular attempts to displace it.
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Note on translations of the bible
Introduction
Postmodernism, Ontotheology and Christianity
1. The modernist ground of postmodern theory
2. Nietzsche/Heidegger/Derrida on ontotheology
3. Nietzsche/Heidegger/Derrida on Christianity
Part I. Nietzsche's Mockery
The Rejection of Transcendence
1. The death of God
loss of belief in the Christian God as the cause of nihilism
2. Vanquishing God's realm
Nietzsche's abolition of the true world
3. Nietzsche on the Judaeo-Christian denial of the world and the world to come in the New Testament
5. On redemption
the eternal return or biblical eschatology
Part II. Heidegger's Forgetting
The Secularisation of Biblical Anthropology
6. From the death of God to the forgetting of Being
7. Heidegger's theological origins
from biblical theology to fundamental ontology
8. The redemptive-eschatological separation of flesh and Spirit in the epistles of the Apostle Paul
9. Inauthenticity and the flesh
10. The eigentlich Selbst or the pneumatikos anthropos
Part III. Derrida's Denials
The Deconstruction of Ontotheology
11. From the ends of man to the beginning of writing
12. Deconstituting the subject
13. Writing and metaphysics
14. Reading the law
the Spirit and the letter
15. Scripture of écriture
the limitations of Derrida's deconstruction of ontotheology
Conclusion
Ontotheology, Negative and the theology of the Cross
1. Denials
negating/negative theology
2. From ontotheology to the theology of the cross
Bibliography.