Postmodern Theory and Biblical Theology: Vanquishing God's Shadow - Softcover

Ingraffia, Brian D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521568404 ISBN 13: 9780521568401

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1995

Synopsis

This book explores the relationship between postmodernism and Christianity. Whereas deconstructionists claim all religious discourses can be radically undermined, Ingraffia argues that the version of Christianity constructed by Nietzsche, Heidegger and especially Derrida ignores Christianity's unique ontological status. This truth, Ingraffia claims, is an unacknowledged influence on leading postmodernist thinkers, thereby demonstrating the priority of the Judaeo-Christian tradition over secular attempts to displace it.

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Review:

'This is a quite extraordinary book: polemical and powerfully original, but also straightforwardly written. I have not read any other book that combines in anything like the way Brian Ingraffia does the three distinct but overlapping fields of postmodern theory, biblical theology and modern metaphysics.' J. Hillis-Miller

Book Description:

This book explores the relationship between postmodernism and Christianity. Whereas deconstructionists claim all religious discourses can be radically undermined, Ingraffia argues that the version of Christianity constructed by Nietzsche, Heidegger and especially Derrida ignores Christianity's unique ontological status.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0521568404
• ISBN 13: 9780521568401
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304