Questioning God

Author(s)

• Caputo, John D.
• Dooley, Mark
• Scanlon, Michael J.

Bibliographic Information

Questioning God

edited by John D. Caputo, Mark Dooley, and Michael J. Scanlon

（Indiana series in the philosophy of religion）

Indiana University Press, c2001

• : cloth
• : pbk

Note

Based on the conference "Religion and postmodernism 2: Questioning God" on Oct. 14-16, 1999

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780253214744

Description

In 15 insightful essays, Jacques Derrida and an international group of scholars of religion explore postmodern thinking about God and consider the nature of forgiveness in relation to the paradoxes of the gift. Among the themes addressed by contributors are the possibilities of imagining God as unthinkable, imagining God as non-patriarchal, imagining a return to Augustine, and imagining an age in which praise is far more important than narrative. Questioning God moves readers beyond the parameters of metaphysical reason and modernist rationality as it attempts to think the questions of God and forgiveness in a postmodernist context. Contributors include John D. Caputo, Jacques Derrida, Mark Dooley, Francis Schussler Fiorenza, Robert Gibbs, Jean Greisch, Kevin Hart, Richard Kearney, Cleo McNelly Kearns, John Milbank, Regina M. Schwartz, Michael J. Scanlon, and Graham Ward. Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion-Merold Westphal, general editor

Table of Contents

Introduction: God Forgive John D. Caputo, Mark Dooley, Michael J. Scanlon Part 1. Forgiving 1. To Forgive: The Unforgivable and the Imprescriptible Jacques Derrida 2. On Forgiveness: A Discussion with Jacques Derrida Moderated by Richard Kearney 3. Returning/Forgiving: Ethics and Theology Robert Gibbs 4. Forgiveness and Incarnation John Milbank 5. The Catastrophe of Memory: Derrida, Milbank and the (Im)possibility of Forgiveness Mark Dooley Part 2. God 6. The God Who May Be Richard Kearney 7. On Interruption Kevin Hart Response by Jacques Derrida 8. Questioning Narratives of God: The Immeasurable in Measures Regina M. Schwartz Response by Jacques Derrida 9. Idipsum: Divine Selfhood and the Postmodern Subject Jean Greisch 10. The Humiliated Self as the Rhetorical Self Michael J. Scanlon 11. Questioning God Graham Ward 12. What Do I Love When I Love My God? Deconstruction and Radical Orthodoxy John D. Caputo 13. The Scandals of the Sign: The Virgin Mary as Supplement in the Religions of the Book Cleo McNelly Kearns 14. Being, Subjectivity, Otherness: The Idols of God Francis Schussler Fiorenza Contributors Index

Volume

: cloth ISBN 9780253339812

Description

In 15 insightful essays, Jacques Derrida and an international group of scholars of religion explore postmodern thinking about God and consider the nature of forgiveness in relation to the paradoxes of the gift. Among the themes addressed by contributors are the possibilities of imagining God as unthinkable, imagining God as non-patriarchal, imagining a return to Augustine, and imagining an age in which praise is far more important than narrative. Questioning God moves readers beyond the parameters of metaphysical reason and modernist rationality as it attempts to think the questions of God and forgiveness in a postmodernist context. Contributors include John D. Caputo, Jacques Derrida, Mark Dooley, Francis Schussler Fiorenza, Robert Gibbs, Jean Greisch, Kevin Hart, Richard Kearney, Cleo McNelly Kearns, John Milbank, Regina M. Schwartz, Michael J. Scanlon, and Graham Ward. Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion-Merold Westphal, general editor

Table of Contents

Introduction: God Forgive John D. Caputo, Mark Dooley, Michael J. Scanlon Part 1. Forgiving 1. To Forgive: The Unforgivable and the Imprescriptible Jacques Derrida 2. On Forgiveness: A Discussion with Jacques Derrida Moderated by Richard Kearney 3. Returning/Forgiving: Ethics and Theology Robert Gibbs 4. Forgiveness and Incarnation John Milbank 5. The Catastrophe of Memory: Derrida, Milbank and the (Im)possibility of Forgiveness Mark Dooley Part 2. God 6. The God Who May Be Richard Kearney 7. On Interruption Kevin Hart Response by Jacques Derrida 8. Questioning Narratives of God: The Immeasurable in Measures Regina M. Schwartz Response by Jacques Derrida 9. Idipsum: Divine Selfhood and the Postmodern Subject Jean Greisch 10. The Humiliated Self as the Rhetorical Self Michael J. Scanlon 11. Questioning God Graham Ward 12. What Do I Love When I Love My God? Deconstruction and Radical Orthodoxy John D. Caputo 13. The Scandals of the Sign: The Virgin Mary as Supplement in the Religions of the Book Cleo McNelly Kearns 14. Being, Subjectivity, Otherness: The Idols of God Francis Schussler Fiorenza Contributors Index

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Details

• NCID: BA60216191
• ISBN:
  • 0253339812
  • 0253214742
• LCCN: 2001000985
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Bloomington, Ind.
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 379 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BT795
  • DC21 : 210
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Forgiveness -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Derrida, Jacques -- Contributions in religious aspects of forgiveness -- Congresses
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA10719984