Thinking Faith After Christianity : A Theological Reading of Jan Patočka's Phenomenological Philosophy

Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
	Jan Patočka’s Texts
	Other Texts
Introduction
	The Contexts and Contours of Patocka’s Thought
	Patocka and Christianity
	Toward an Appropriation of Patocka’s Philosophy in Theology
Chapter 1 Philosophia ancilla theologiae? Jan Patočka and the Theological Turn
	Are Theology and Philosophy Two Separate Things?
		From Heidegger to Patocka
		Countertheological Turns
		Fides quaerens intellectum
	Philosophy: Questioning the Absolute
	Reconsidering the Intertwining of Phenomenology and Theology
		The Religio of Phenomenology
	Philosophy, Theology, and the Task of Thinking
Chapter 2 Sola ratione? On the Spiritual Crisis of Modernity
	The Modern Project of Reason
		A Reconfigured Idea of Reason
		The Rise of Scientific Reason
		Two Senses of Reason
		Closed Reason
	Four Figures of Crisis
		Masaryk on Subjectivism and the Crisis of Religion
		Nietzsche, Nihilisms, and the Death of God
		Husserl’s Crisis of Reason and the Problem of Objectivity
		Heidegger and the Danger of Technology
	The Crisis of Modern Rational Culture and Its Inner Conflict
		From Civilization to Supercivilization
		Moderate Modernity / Radical Modernity
		Religion and Supercivilization
		Lost in Truth, and Self-Limited Universalism
		The Loss of Vertical Thinking and the Crisis of Modern Supercivilization
	Modernity as Spiritual Crisis
Chapter 3 After Metaphysics? Patočka’s Deconstruction of Metaphysics and the Postmodern Overcoming of Ontotheology
	From Metaphysical Thinking to Metaphysical Philosophy
	Heidegger’s Critique of the Ontotheological Structure of Metaphysics
	Postmodern Overcoming of Ontotheology
		New Phenomenology: Jean-Luc Marion
		Radical Hermeneutics: John D. Caputo
		Overcoming Metaphysics—Where To?
	Metaphysical Thinking Reconsidered
Chapter 4 Faith and/as Metaphysical Thinking: A Theological Reading of Patočka’s Negative Platonism
	Negative Platonism
		The Experience of Freedom
		The Negative Idea
	Truth as In-Adequacy
	Theology, Faith, and Metaphysical Thinking
		Faith from the Perspective of Negative Platonism
		Faith from the Perspective of Time
	Lessons for Theology
Chapter 5 Deconstruction or Heresy: Reconsidering the Un-thought of Christianity
	Phenomenology and Deconstruction
	Christianity Demythologized and Deconstructed
		Beyond Myth
		Beyond Rational Theology and a Moral God
	Heresy, or: What Is Patocka’s Christianity?
	The Un-thought of Christianity
	Conclusion: Toward Christianity after Christianity
Chapter 6 The Call to Responsibility: Derrida’s Reading of Patočka’s Christian Thinking
	Patocka and Derrida on Responsibility
	An Assessment of Derrida’s Reading
		Derrida against Patocka
		Patocka against Derrida
		Derrida against (pseudo) Patocka
		Patocka and Derrida
	Christian Thinking
Chapter 7 Sacrifice for Nothing: The Movement of Kenosis in Patočka’s Thought
	Sacrifice for Nothing
	Sacrifice as the Moment of Gift
	Kenosis in Patocka’s Perspective
		Why Have You Forsaken Me?
		The Myth of the God-Man
	Toward a Theological Appropriation of Patocka’s Concept of Sacrifice
	The Experience of Sacrifice: Christ or Socrates?
	Kenotic Christianity after Christianity
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index