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Questioning God

John D. Caputo (Editor), Mark Dooley (Editor), Michael J. Scanlon (Editor)
Based on the second of Villanova's "Religion and Postmodernism" lecture series, this book discusses questions of forgiveness and God in a post-modern time. It also covers the confrontation of deconstruction with Radical Orthodoxy.
Print Book, English, 2001
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Ind., 2001
Conference papers and proceedings
379 s.
9780253339812, 9780253214744, 0253339812, 0253214742
186410253
Introduction: God Forgive John D. Caputo, Mark Dooley, Michael J. ScanlonPart 1. Forgiving1. To Forgive: The Unforgivable and the Imprescriptible Jacques Derrida2. On Forgiveness: A Discussion with Jacques Derrida Moderated by Richard Kearney3. Returning/Forgiving: Ethics and Theology Robert Gibbs4. Forgiveness and Incarnation John Milbank5. The Catastrophe of Memory: Derrida, Milbank and the (Im)possibility of Forgiveness Mark DooleyPart 2. God6. The God Who May Be Richard Kearney7. On Interruption Kevin HartResponse by Jacques Derrida8. Questioning Narratives of God: The Immeasurable in Measures Regina M. SchwartzResponse by Jacques Derrida9. Idipsum: Divine Selfhood and the Postmodern Subject Jean Greisch10. The Humiliated Self as the Rhetorical Self Michael J. Scanlon11. Questioning God Graham Ward12. What Do I Love When I Love My God? Deconstruction and Radical Orthodoxy John D. Caputo13. The Scandals of the Sign: The Virgin Mary as Supplement in the Religions of the Book Cleo McNelly Kearns14. Being, Subjectivity, Otherness: The Idols of God Francis Schüssler Fiorenza ContributorsIndex