Theological Poverty in Continental Philosophy: After Christian Theology

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Outline of the Argument
1 Paradox
	Theologies of Paradox
	The Negativity of Deconstruction
	On the Nature of Paradox
	An Inverse Theology
	The Political Stakes of Paradox
	The Kierkegaardian Move
	An Alternative Reading
	The Political Theological Implications of Paradox
2 Negation
	Transcendence as the Failure of Immanence
	The Assault against Mythology
	The Poverty of Theology
	Reconceiving of the Secular
	The Radicality of the Proposition
	The Roots of Reformation
	The Role of History
	A Possible Experience of Grace
3 Grace
	The Nihilism of Grace
	The Entrance of the Sublime
	Accessing the Possibility of Grace
	The Restoration of Tradition
	The Aesthetic Solution
	The Poverty of Grace
	Redefining the Ecstasy of Death
4 History
	Commemorating Foundational Violence
	Monumental and Critical Histories
	The Critical Idea
	The Vulnerability of the Body
	The Role of Metaphor
	God, Perhaps
5 Violence
	Revolution and Reform
	The Christian Secular
	Divine Violence
	Revolutionary Violence
	An Ontology of Poverty
	The Singular Form of Life
Conclusion
	Re-engaging the Secular
	Whither Theology?
	The Idiocy of Theology
Notes
Bibliography
Index