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  • Chapter 5 - Atheism and the Future of Faith

  • David Newheiser, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
  • Book:
    Hope in a Secular Age
    Published online:
    31 January 2020
    Print publication:
    19 December 2019, pp 108-131

  • Summary

    This chapter argues that it is both impossible and unnecessary to exclude religion from secular politics. Martin Hägglund claims that deconstruction entails a radical atheism, but Derrida suggests that political commitments are formally indistinguishable from religious faith insofar as they are both directed toward the unforeseeable future. Much as Dionysius orients himself toward an unknowable God, Derrida affirms a justice that is radically elusive. Political theorists such as Mark Lilla argue that religion and politics should be strictly separated, but my account of hope indicates that they are inseparable. Where secularism and theocracy both promise an impossible clarity, atheism and Christian thought share an uncertain hope.