Luther after Derrida: The Deconstructive Drive of Theology

Marisa Strizzi

doi:10.5771/9781978713932

Summary

This book creatively engages Martin Luther’s theology and Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction in a systematic theological enterprise. Guided by the general question of how to think about theology in postmodern times within a given tradition, Marisa Strizzi meticulously follows deconstruction at work, focusing on distinctive theological elaborations. She argues that Luther’s theology has a significant deconstructive drive and, through the thorough reading of texts, illustrates the ways in which such theology is interactive with the thought of Derrida. Intersections, echoes, and mirrors allow a happy exchange in which the vital theological topics of Luther meet key deconstructive motifs. Thus, the cross, the Deus absconditus, scriptura, fides, gratia and Christo encounter khōra, écriture, the gift, faith, the messianic and autoimmune sovereignty. Strizzi solidly sustains that the deconstructive reading of theological traditions proves to be a critical constructive way of honoring them.

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Edition: 1/2023
Copyright Year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-9787-1392-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-9787-1393-2
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 264
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Abbreviations of Works Cited No access
1. Reading Luther after Derrida No access
2. A Certain Strategy No access
3. On Metaphysics No access
4. Deconstructive Readings No access
1. Knowing Otherwise No access
2. The Posteriora Dei No access
3. Otherwise than Knowing No access
4. The Deus absconditus No access
1. Sola Scriptura No access
2. Sola Fide No access
3. Sola Gratia No access
4. Solus Christus No access
1. A Happy Exchange No access
Bibliography No access Pages 245 - 258
Index No access Pages 259 - 262
About the Author No access Pages 263 - 264