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"... provocative and rewarding... " —Religious Studies Review
"... a tour de force."—Theological Studies
Theology and Difference reconceives the options confronting modern theology and investigates the disputed questions that underlie it. Pressing beyond the ready-made enlightenment offered by the subject-object framework, Walter Lowe uncovers a number of remarkable convergences between the contemporary philosopher Jacques Derrida and the early twentieth-century theologian Karl Barth.
Preface
I. Introduction: Violence and Reason
Pitfalls of Enlightenment The Dissolving of Difference The Memory of Suffering Making Sense of Derrida Tradition in Question Contextualization The Idealist Diamond The Kantian Opening
II. Qualitative Difference: Barth’s Epistle to the Romans
Qualitative Difference Memory of God The Christ Event An Analogy of Difference?
Theology and Difference: The Argument in Brief
III. Truth and Contextualization: Freud, Husserl, Derrida
Freud and the Logic of Suspicion Kant and the Issue of Objectivity Husserl and the Western Discovery of Objectivity Derida and the Deconstruction of Objectivity Ricoeur and Theological Hermeneutics Hermeneutics and the Idealist Diamond The Deconstructionist Alternative The Insistnece of the Truth Question
IV. The Kantian Opening
Kant and the Sublation of Theodicy Ontotheology and the Great Chain of Being Plenitude and the Otherness of Time Kant and the New Cosmology Beyond Ontotheology Opening the First Critique The Coram Deo
V. The Otherness of the Ethical Opening the Second Critique The Wound of Reason Imperative as Contextualization The Return of Theodicy Rational Existentialism Cutting the Idealist Diamond
VI. The Ethics of Otherness
The Argument Reviewed The A/theology of Mark C. Taylor Barth and the Problem of Ethics Dialectic and Repentance Thinking through the Wound
Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Overview
"... provocative and rewarding... " —Religious Studies Review
"... a tour de force."—Theological Studies
Theology and Difference reconceives the options confronting modern theology and investigates the disputed questions that underlie it. Pressing beyond the ready-made enlightenment offered by the subject-object framework, Walter Lowe uncovers a number of remarkable convergences between the contemporary philosopher Jacques Derrida and the early twentieth-century theologian Karl ...