Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-dzt6s Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-23T01:30:10.985Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Pragmatism and the Deconstruction of Theology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. Wesley Robbins
Affiliation:
Indiana University, South Bend, U.S.A.

Extract

Theological deconstructionism written in a Derridean manner typically consists of twin announcements about the religious character, and significance, of contemporary experience and culture. The first is the announcement of the death of both the transcendent God and His latter-day substitutes, such as the transcendental self, which have provided the religious underpinnings for classical and modern culture, respectively.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Altizer, Thomas J. J. ‘History as Apocalypse.’ In Deconstruction and Theology, ed. by Raschke, C. et al. , pp. 147–77 (New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1982).Google Scholar
Holmes, Arthur F.Contours of a World View (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1983).Google Scholar
Raschke, Carl, ‘The Deconstruction of God.’ In Deconstruction and Theology, ed. by Raschke, C. et al. , pp. 133 (New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1982).Google Scholar
Rorty, Richard, Consequences of Pragmatism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1982).Google Scholar
Taylor, Mark, Deconstructing Theology (New York: The Crossland Publishing Company, 1982).Google Scholar
Taylor, Mark, Erring: A Posimoder A/theology (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1984).CrossRefGoogle Scholar