ABSTRACT
Written in response to John Caputo's The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida, this work gathers together cutting-edge theologians and philosophers to examine the relationship between Derridan deconstruction and religion. Containing a lengthy counter-response by Caputo, as well as an interview, Religion With/Out Religion will be required reading for all those involved in contemporary theological debate.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |14 pages
Dangerous safety, safe danger
The threat of deconstruction to the threat of determinable faith
1
chapter |12 pages
Is deconstruction an Augustinian science?
Augustine, Derrida, and Caputo on the commitments of philosophy
1
chapter |18 pages
Prayers of confession and tears of contrition
John Caputo and a radically “Baptist” hermeneutic of repentance