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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DERRIDA AMONG THE MORMONS?: QUESTION AND ANSWER WITH JOHN D. CAPUTO
DERRIDA AMONG THE MORMONS?: QUESTION AND ANSWER WITH JOHN D. CAPUTO Does deconstruction make room for faith in the face of Enlightenment rationalism? What is the status of church doctrine and organization in light of postmodernism’s claim to be always awaiting the final truth, a truth that, like the Second Coming of Christ, has not …