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Theology and Contemporary Continental Philosophy REFRAMING CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION Series Editors: Steven Shakespeare, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Liverpool Hope University Duane Williams, Senior Lecturer, Liverpool Hope University Reframing Continental Philosophy of Religion aims to revitalize continental philosophy of religion. It challenges the standard Western Christian frame- work that has dominated philosophy of religion in the academy. It provides a platform for voices, theories, and traditions that have been suppressed or marginalized by that framework and offers genuinely new and constructive openings in the field. It is motivated by an imperative to liberate original thinking about religion from the legacy of Empire. The series is experimental, creative, subversive, and risky. It promotes work that brings continental philosophy of religion into fruitful dialogue with postcolonial theory; Islamic studies; heretical, esoteric, or mystical or other- wise marginalized Western traditions; non-Western philosophical traditions; and critical studies of power, race, gender, and sexuality. Taking seriously the fertility of European philosophy, it does not, however, merely subject “other” discourses to a European gaze but also allows different discourses to interact and mutate one another on a mutual basis. Reframing Continental Philosophy of Religion will not leave continental philosophy of religion as it finds it. The series is published in partnership with the Association for Continental Philosophy of Religion at Liverpool Hope University. Titles in the series: Speculation, Heresy, and Gnosis in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion: The Enigmatic Absolute Edited by Joshua Ramey and Matthew S. Haar Farris Simone Weil and Continental Philosophy Edited by A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone The Art of Anatheism Edited by Matthew Clemente and Richard Kearney Theology and Contemporary Continental Philosophy: The Centrality of a Negative Dialectic Colby Dickinson Theology and Contemporary Continental Philosophy The Centrality of a Negative Dialectic Colby Dickinson London • New York Published by Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd. 6 Tinworth Street, London SE11 5AL, United Kingdom www.rowmaninternational.com Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd. is an affiliate of Rowman & Littlefield 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706, USA With additional offices in Boulder, New York, Toronto (Canada), and Plymouth (UK) www.rowman.com Copyright © 2019 by Colby Dickinson All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: HB 978-1-7866-1059-1 PB 978-1-7866-1060-7 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Dickinson, Colby, author. Title: Theology and contemporary Continental philosophy : the centrality of a negative dialectic / Colby Dickinson. Description: New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, 2019. | Series: Reframing Continental philosophy of religion | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018044861 (print) | LCCN 2018053703 (ebook) | ISBN 9781786610614 (electronic) | ISBN 9781786610591 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781786610607 (pbk. : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Continental philosophy. | Political theology | Dialectic. Classification: LCC B804 (ebook) | LCC B804 .D485 2019 (print) | DDC 261.5/1--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018044861 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992. Printed in the United States of America This book is dedicated to Rowan Bayley, my beautiful son. Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 On the Relationship of Continental Philosophy to Theology 9 2 Toward a Negative Dialectic 33 3 The Gap within Existence as Theological Motif 69 4 The Phenomenological (Re)turn 107 Conclusion 129 Bibliography 133 Index 153 About the Author 159 vii Acknowledgments I was very grateful to Stephan van Erp for the invitation to write the following introductory study for a series of monographs, as it proved to be an immense joy for me to undertake. Though my manuscript quickly exceeded the bound- aries of what the publisher could ultimately allow, it was this invitation that spawned the present project. For the context within which to take up these themes, however, Stephan could have given me no better topic in which to situate my thoughts. I am immensely thankful to him for this challenge. I have learned a good deal over the past several years from many people with whom I have been in conversation and whose names appear, or lie firmly behind, the research I have undertaken in this book. In particular, I have benefited so much from my talks with, in no specific order: Adam Kotsko, Kristien Justaert, Jack Caputo, Lieven Boeve, Bruce Ellis Benson, Clayton Crockett, Richard Kearney, Marianne Moyaert, Hille Haker, Stephan van Erp, Joeri Schrijvers, Andrew Cutrofello, Peter Fenves, Adriaan Peperzak, Giorgio Agamben, Hugh Miller, Robyn Horner, Phyllis Kaminski, Ward Blanton, Anthony Godzieba, Justin Sands, Danelle Fourie, Dan Minch, Joe Drexler- Dries, Stéphane Symons, Marcos Norris, Elisabeth Bayley, Willem Styfhals, John McCarthy, Silas Morgan, Hanne Jacobs, Michael Deckard, Tom Jacobs, David Ingram, Martin Koči, Anné Verhoef, and Mark Bosco. I wish to express my gratitude to each of these people for stimulating my research and writing on various occasions. Though he is certainly not aware of it, a dinner conversation with Jean-Luc Marion at the close of a conference I helped organize in spring 2016 (“The Challenge of God”) at Loyola University Chicago was perhaps the biggest single influence upon the present work. Our talk, for me, constituted a spe- cific point of reentry into the world of phenomenological thought. I have been consistently reexamining a number of texts since that time in light of our ix

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