Event: Salt Lake Symposium 1999

COMPLICITY AND THE LIMITS OF FORGIVENESS

COMPLICITY AND THE LIMITS OF FORGIVENESS In simply living our lives, we find that we are complicit in a variety of wrongs. This continuous complicity can deaden us morally, making us insensitive to the violence of modern life. But there is in fact no morally viable way to be forgiven or freed of this complicity, …

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TOWARD A MESSIANIC POSTMODERNISM: DECONSTRUCTION AND RELIGION

TOWARD A MESSIANIC POSTMODERNISM: DECONSTRUCTION AND RELIGION Deconstruction is a philosophy that emphasizes the productive role of difference, as opposed to the “modern” or Enlightenment predilection for universality and consensus. There are (at least) two different varieties of this philosophy of difference, depending on which of its two nineteenth-century predecessors, Nietzsche or Kierkegaard, one favors, …

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