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

Tan, See Seng

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1666741639 ISBN 13 : 9781666741636

Editeur : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 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?

A propos du livre

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 & Stock Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1666741639
• ISBN 13: 9781666741636
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 150
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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