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Between the Canon and the Messiah - The Structure of Faith in Contemporary Continental Thought

English · Hardback

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Zusatztext In this impressive new book! Dickinson sets forth a compelling agenda for a radical theological hermeneutics. With excellent and detailed readings of Agamben! Derrida! Benjamin! Ricoeur and Butler! Between Canon and Messiah reconfigures our map of contemporary philosophy and theology. Informationen zum Autor Colby Dickinson is Associate Professor of Theology at Loyola University Chicago, USA.This book traces the concepts of the ‘messianic' and the ‘canon' as central terms upon which both philosophy and theology historically rely. Zusammenfassung Dickinson traces the development of two concepts, the messianic and the canonical, as they circulate, interweave and contest each other in the work of three prominent continental philosophers: Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben, though a strong supporting cast of Jan Assmann, Gershom Scholem, Jacob Taubes and Paul Ricoeur, among others, also play their respective roles throughout this study. He isolates how their various interactions with their chosen terms reflects a good deal of what is said within the various discourses that constitute what we have conveniently labelled, often in mistakenly monolithic terms, as 'Theology'.By narrowing the scope of this study to the dynamics generated historically by these contrasting terms, he also seeks to determine what exactly lies at the heart of theology's seemingly most treasured object: the presentation beyond any representation, the supposed true nucleus of all revelation and what lies behind any search for a 'theology of immanence' today. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements \ Introduction \ Part I: Between Philosophy and Theology \ 1. The Legacy of an Antinomian Messianism within a Jewish Historical Context \ 2. Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben on the Processes of Messianicity and Canonicity \ Conclusions formulated on the basis of Part I: Recognizing the Challenges of a 'Political Theology of Immanence' \ Part II: The Radical Hermeneutics of Theology \ 3. The 'Violence' of the Canon: A Contemporary Context for the Canonical Form \ 4. The Necessity of Hermeneutics \ Conclusions formulated on the basis of Part II \ Conclusion \ Notes \ Bibliography \ Index ...

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