Erring: A Postmodern A/theology"Erring is a thoughtful, often brilliant attempt to describe and enact what remains of (and for) theology in the wake of deconstruction. Drawing on Hegel, Nietzsche, Derrida, and others, Mark Taylor extends—and goes well beyond—pioneering efforts. . . . The result is a major book, comprehensive and well-informed."—G. Douglas Atkins, Philosophy and Literature "Many have felt the need for a study which would explicate in coherent and accessible fashion the principal tenets of deconstruction, with particular attention to their theological implications. This need the author has addressed in a most impressive manner. The book's effect upon contemporary discussion is apt to be, and deserves to be, far-reaching."—Walter Lowe, Journal of Religion |
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a/theology absence absolute actually affirmation Altizer appears atheism Augustine Barthes becomes beginning carnival Christian closure clown codependent completely consciousness constitutes critical death death of God deconstruction Derrida Dionysus disappearance discloses discourse dispossession dissemination divine milieu economy of domination embodied end of history errant erring everything expropriation forever G. W. F. Hegel Grammatology grotesque body Hegel human humanistic atheism Ibid identity individual inevitably infinite inscribed Insofar interplay interpretation inverts Jacques Derrida labyrinth language liminal logic logocentric logos marks master masterpiece meaning narrative negation never Nietzsche nihilism notion opposites origin perspective Phenomenology philosophy possession possible present primal proper name propriety radical realized reflection relation relationship represents Roland Barthes scripture self-identity self-presence selfhood sense signified simply structure struggle subverts temporal theology things Thomas J. J. Altizer tion totality trace tradition trans transcendent truth unending unhappy consciousness University Press wandering Western Writing and Difference York