Postmodern philosophy and Christian thought

Author(s)

• Westphal, Merold

Bibliographic Information

Postmodern philosophy and Christian thought

edited by Merold Westphal

（Indiana series in the philosophy of religion）

Indiana University Press, 1999

• : pbk. : alk. paper

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: pbk. : alk. paper ISBN 9780253213365

Description

Are postmodern philosophy and Christian thought so diametrically opposed that "never the twain shall meet"? Or are various postmodern philosophies, in spite of their secular provenance, open to religious appropriation? These thirteen lively, original essays awaken secular postmodernisms and various modes of Christian thinking from their ideological complacency. An open space for passionate dialogue emerges from conversations that powerfully engage both intellectual and religious points of view.

Table of Contents

Appropriating Modernism, Merold Westphal I. Placing Postmodernism 1. On the Uses and Advantages of An Epistemology For Life, W. Jay Wood 2. Postmodernism as a Kind of Modernism: Nietzsche's Critique of Knowledge, Lee Hardy 3. Is the Postmodern Post-Secular? The Parody of Religious Quests in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and Don De Lillo's White Noise, Brian D. Ingraffia 4. Against Appropriation: Postmodern Programs, Claimants, Contests, Conversations, Gary Percesepe II. Theological Issues 5. The Hermeneutics of Difference: Barth and Derrida on Words and the Word, Garrett Green 6. The Bitterness of Cain: (Post)modernity's Disdain for Determinacy, Walter Lowe 7. Sketch of a Phenomenological Concept of Gift, Jean-Luc Marion 8. Against Idolatry: Heidegger and Natural Theology, George Connell 9. Yearning for Home: The Christian Doctrine of Creation in a Postmodern Age, Steven Bouma-Prediger 10. Toward a Postmodern Theology of the Cross: Augustine, Heidegger, Derrida, John D. Caputo III. Ethical and Social Issues 11. Emmanuel Levinas and Hillel's Questions, Edith Wyschogrod 12. Love's Reason: From Heideggerian Care to Christian Charity, Norman Wirzba 13. Between Exclusivity and Plurality: Toward a Postmodern Christian Philosophy of Other Religions, Andrew J. Dell'Olio Contributors Index

Volume

ISBN 9780253335920

Description

Are postmodern philosophy and Christian thought so diametrically opposed that 'never the twain shall meet'? Or are various postmodern philosophies, in spite of their secular provenance, open to religious appropriation? From the Christian side, it is all too easy to see postmodern philosophy as nothing but an implacable enemy, while those with postmodern sympathies see Christianity as the embodiment of the hegemony which it so forcefully opposes.Thinkers from Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish perspectives engage Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, and Foucault in explorations of the epistemological, theological, literary, ethical, and social issues provoked by bringing postmodern philosophy into dialog with Christian thought. The thirteen lively, original essays awaken secular post modernisms and various modes of Christian thinking from their ideological complacency. An open space for passionate dialog emerges from conversations that powerfully engage both intellectual and religious points of view. Contributors include: Steven Bouma-Prediger, John D. Caputo, George Connell, Andrew J. Dell'Olio, Garrett Green, Lee Hardy, Brian D.Ingraffia, Walter Lowe, Jean-Luc Marion, Gary Percesepe, Merold Westphal, W. Jay Wood, Norman Wirzba, and Edith Wyschogrod.

Table of Contents

• Appropriating Modernism, Merold Westphal I. Placing Postmodernism 1. On the Uses and Advantages of An Epistemology For Life, W. Jay Wood 2. Postmodernism as a Kind of Modernism: Nietzsche's Critique of Knowledge, Lee Hardy 3. Is the Postmodern Post-Secular? The Parody of Religious Quests in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and Don De Lillo's White Noise, Brian D. Ingraffia 4. Against Appropriation: Postmodern Programs, Claimants, Contests, Conversations, Gary Percesepe II. Theological Issues 5. The Hermeneutics of Difference: Barth and Derrida on Words and the Word, Garrett Green 6. The Bitterness of Cain: (Post)modernity's Disdain for Determinacy, Walter Lowe 7. Sketch of a Phenomenological Concept of Gift, Jean-Luc Marion 8. Against Idolatry: Heidegger and Natural Theology, George Connell 9. Yearning for Home: The Christian Doctrine of Creation in a Postmodern Age, Steven Bouma-Prediger 10. Toward a Postmodern Theology of the Cross: Augustine, Heidegger, Derrida, John D. Caputo III. Ethical and Social Issues 11. Emmanuel Levinas and Hillel's Questions, Edith Wyschogrod 12. Love's Reason: From Heideggerian Care to Christian Charity, Norman Wirzba 13. Between Exclusivity and Plurality: Toward a Postmodern Christian Philosophy of Other Religions, Andrew J. Dell'Olio Contributors
• Index

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Details

• NCID: BA44867632
• ISBN:
  • 0253335922
  • 0253213363
• LCCN: 99028626
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Bloomington, IN
• Pages/Volumes: vi, 291 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BR115.P74
  • DC21 : 261.5/1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Postmodernism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Congresses
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA10719984