Questioning God

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 Schüssler 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

John D. Caputo is David R. Cook Chair of Philosophy at Villanova University. He is author of More Radical Hermeneutics; The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida; Against Ethics; and Radical Hermeneutics. He is co-editor (with Michael J. Scanlon) of God, the Gift, and Postmodernism.

Mark Dooley is John Henry Newman Scholar in Theology at University College, Dublin. He is author of The Politics of Exodus and From Aquinas to Derrida.

Michael J. Scanlon is Josephine C. Connelly Chair of Christian Theology at Villanova University. His articles have appeared in Catholic Theological Society of America Proceedings, New Theology Review, and Augustinian Studies.

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction: God Forgive

1

(20)

John D. Caputo

Mark Dooley

Michael J. Scanlon

PART 1. FORGIVING

To Forgive: The Unforgivable and the Imprescriptible

21

(31)

Jacques Derrida

On Forgiveness: A Roundtable Discussion with Jacques Derrida

52

(21)

Richard Kearney

Returning/Forgiving: Ethics and Theology

73

(19)

Robert Gibbs

Forgiveness and Incarnation

92

(37)

John Milbank

The Catastrophe of Memory: Derrida, Milbank and the (Im) possibility of Forgiveness

129

(24)

Mark Dooley

PART II. GOD

The God Who May Be

153

(33)

Richard Kearney

``Absolute Interruption'': On Faith

186

(23)

Kevin Hart

Response

Jacques Derrida

Questioning Narratives of God: The Immeasurable in Measures

209

(26)

Regina Mara Schwartz

Response

Jacques Derrida

``Idipsum'': Divine Selfhood and the Postmodern Subject

235

(28)

Jean Greisch

The Humiliated Self as the Rhetorical Self

263

(11)

Michael J. Scanlon

Questioning God

274

(17)

Graham Ward

What Do I Love When I Love My God? Deconstruction and Radical Orthodoxy

291

(27)

John D. Caputo

The Scandals of the Sign: The Virgin Mary as Supplement in the Religions of the Book

318

(23)

Cleo McNelly Kearns

Being, Subjectivity, Otherness: The Idols of God

341

(30)

Francis Schussler Fiorenza

Contributors

371

(4)

Index

375

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