Awaiting the Impossible: A Dialogue with Derrida, Deconstruction, and the Endless Wait for Messiah (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781666741636)

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?

Author: See Seng Tan
ISBN-10: 1666741639
ISBN-13: 9781666741636
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Language: English
Published: 06/08/2022
Pages: 150
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d