Theology & Difference The Wound Of

"... a tour de force."

..". 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.

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