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De- construction ^Theology Thomas J.J. Altizer Max A. Myers Carl A. Raschke Robert R Scharlemann Mark C. Taylor Charles E. Winquist DENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY RD1130 7S3Sfl construction &Tlieology "Deconstruction" is an intellectual movement which, having caused widespread upheavals in the world of philosophy and literary criticism, now promises to set offthe mostvigorous debate among theologians since the death-of-God controversy in the mid- Sixties. In fact, deconstruction shares with the earlier "Cod is dead" move- ment the same sourceofinspiration in the thought and style of Friedrich Nietzsche. As Carl A. Raschke in his introduction to this book succinctly states it. "Deconstruction is the death ofCod put into writing." Thus decon- struction does not represent simply another theological fad comparable to those which have so promis- cuously and uncritically cropped up during the past two decades. Decon- struction, the present book contends, amounts to "the end of theology." It is an apocalyptic closure to an epoch of familiar pieties and conventional theological undertakings. The present-day movement of deconstruction stems from the chal- lenging and polyvalent philosophic achievement of )acques Derrida: it draws heavily on the interpretations of history and society of Michel Fou- cault: and lastly, it is indebted to the Continuedon'jr.c'-I'Mp 230 D358 Deconstructi °" and theology / *.^ SOCIAL SCIENCES DENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FINEPV>^ CRTIME ^^ DATE DUE '^ J^ RD113D 7S35fi Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 http://www.archive.org/details/deconstructionthOOalti Dei nstruction Iheology anc^ Deconstruction and Theolo gy THOMAS ALTIZER. MAX MYERS A. J. J. CARL A.RASCHKE ROBERT SCHARLEMANN • P. MARK C TAYLOR CHARLES WINQUIST • E. DENVER i^SLIC LIBRARY FEB 1983 CROSSROAD NEW YORK . RQ1130 75356 To Yog Satoth 230 D358 ^^^^"st'^^ction and theology 1982 The Crossroad Publishing Company 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10022 Copyright © 1982 by The Crossroad Publishing Company Allrights reserved. Nopartofthis bookmay bereproduced, stored inaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted, in any form orby any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written permission ofThe Cross- road PublishingCompany. Printed in the United States ofAmerica LIBRARYOFCONGRESSCATALOGINGIN PUBLICATIONDATA Main entry under title: Deconstruction and theology. — — 1. Theology 20th century Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Altizer, ThomasJ.J. BT28.D38 230 82-1377 ISBN 0-8245-0475-5 AACR2 ISBN 0-8245-0412-7 (pbk.) Contents Preface / CARL A. RASCHKE vii 1 The Deconstruction ofGod 1 Carl A. Raschke 2 Body, Text, and Imagination 34 Charles E. Winquist 3 Text as Victim 58 Mark C. Taylor 4 The Being ofGod When God Is Not Being God: Deconstructing the History ofTheism 79 Robert P. Scharlemann 5 Toward What Is Religious Thinking Underway? 109 Max a. Myers 6 History as Apocalypse 147 Thomas Altizer J. J. Contributors 178 We knowers are unknown to ourselves, and for agood reason: how can we ever hope to find what we have never looked for? FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
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