ABSTRACT
Theology sometimes has had to think under conditions not of its own choosing. In its Western cultural expression and in its close alliance, since Aristotle, with first philosophy or wisdom it has generally followed a trajectory of epochal transformations from philosophies of Being to philosophies of consciousness to philosophies of language. Theology itself took a radical turn in the 1960s that in some ways was a catching-up with the hermeneutics of suspicion but was not yet what can be called postmodern theology. History and society were understood as thoroughly secular. The human subject was privileged as the agent within theological discourse. Deconstructive postmodernism is parasitic in that it works with already existing texts.
