ABSTRACT
Postmodern deconstructive theologians and philosophers criticise Christianity for being attached to the idea of a transcendent principle or a supernatural God. Western and Christian interpretations of the world should be unmasked and dismantled, but a deconstructed Christianity can be a source of incentives for a different way of thinking that rids itself of dominant Western views. Christian notions are used to dispose of Christianity and counter theology theologically. This is done in various ways, as exemplified by Frits de Lange, Carl Raschke, Thomas Altizer, Slavoj Žižek, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Giorgio Agamben. Generally speaking, God is invoked as an entity that does not exist and as a principle that is intended to dissolve every principle.
