ABSTRACT
A very specific, and certainly intriguing, hermeneutics of Christianity is offered by the Irish philosopher Richard Kearney. Informed by the phenomenological, hermeneutical and deconstructionist philosophical traditions, he rereads biblical, theological and philosophical texts trying to avoid, on the one hand, the specter of an onto-theological God, while simultaneously striving not to give in, on the other hand, to present-day deconstructionist, negative-theological attempts to overcome such a God. Espousing discontent with the latter’s ‘a-theism’, he hopes to retrieve the contours of a ‘God who may be’ in a hermeneutic sense, without, however, regressing again to the confined particularism of older confessional positions.
