ABSTRACT
In the reflections that follow I undertake to show how the very notion of theory, insofar as it can make the claim to contemporaneity, involves a critical distinction between divine and graven images. It is precisely the distinction between divine and graven images as established by the Genesis stories of creation and fall that gives us a notion of temporality as contemporaneity. In addition to the stories of creation and fall, I shall call upon thinkers from St Augustine to Derrida in order to show that critical thinking has always been contemporary and, therefore, biblical.
