Postmodern Theory and Biblical Theology: Vanquishing God's Shadow

This book explores the relationship between postmodernism and Christianity. Postmodernism regards Christianity as capable of being dismantled and demystified through an uncovering of its strict dualisms between body and soul, the temporal and the transcendental. Professor Ingraffia argues against the version of Christianity constructed by Nietzsche, Heidegger and Derrida. Through an exegesis of the New Testament, and wide reference to philosophers and theologians, Ingraffia argues that biblical theology must be separated from Greek and Modern metaphysics. He demonstrates how any attempted reconciliation between contemporary critical theory and biblical theology is radically misguided. Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida and many other representatives of post-modern thought have, he argues, actually absorbed the Judaeo-Christian tradition, thereby demonstrating its priority over secular attempts to displace it. Drawing upon the writings of Luther, Kierkegaard, Barth, Bonhoeffer, Niebuhr and Moltmann, Ingraffia argues that an "either/or" must be articulated between postmodern theory and biblical theology.