Awaiting the Impossible: A Dialogue with Derrida, Deconstruction, and the Endless Wait for Messiah - Couverture souple

Tan, See Seng

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1666741620 ISBN 13 : 9781666741629

Editeur : Wipf and Stock, 2022

Synopsis

This book dialogues with deconstruction’s “religion without religion” and its implications for theology. In the view of many, deconstruction is a purely nihilistic force bent on the wanton destruction of long-held philosophical, religious, and moral traditions. However, this perspective ignores the fact that deconstruction—in the hands of its standard bearers like Jacques Derrida, John Caputo, and others—has all along been a religious exercise in demythologization. Furnishing a Christian rejoinder to deconstruction’s claims about and objections to orthodox religion (and particularly to Christianity), the book addresses the following questions: How can deconstruction open a space for an affirmative faith to occur and be professed? Can deconstruction ever be hospitable toward Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah for which it waits?

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À propos de l'auteur

See Seng Tan is president and CEO of International Students Inc. (ISI), a Christian nonprofit organization headquartered in Colorado Springs. Before entering vocational ministry, Tan worked as a political scientist, university academic, and think-tank leader. He is the author of The Responsibility to Provide in Southeast Asia (2019), The Legal Authority of ASEAN as a Security Institution (2019), Multilateral Asian Security Architecture (2015), and The Making of the Asia Pacific (2013).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wipf and Stock
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1666741620
• ISBN 13: 9781666741629
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 150
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• Personne responsable: non disponible