Title: Preaching after God : Derrida, Caputo, and the language of postmodern homiletics /
Authors: Snider, Phil, 1973-
Publisher: Cascade Books,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Derrida, Jacques; Caputo, John D.; Preaching; Deconstruction.; Postmodernism Religious aspects Christianity; Postmodern theology.
Abstract: Even though the postmodern return of religion is dramatically shaping the future of twenty-first-century theology, its riches for preaching are rarely mined. Preaching After God highlights the trajectories of the postmodern return of religion by introducing readers to the positive theological themes stirring in the work of influential philosophers.
Contents: Part I. The modern homiletical crisis and the postmodern return of religion. The domestication of transcendence -- Why the modern homiletical crisis is a (pastoral) problem -- Why Nietzsche matters -- Religulous? -- Call and response : a homiletic of the event -- The risk of preaching -- Part II. Preaching after God. On (not) planning for the future -- Nourished by our hunger -- Implicitly speaking -- Impossible gifts -- Lost in wonder, love, and praise -- Grilled cheesus (or, the gospel according to Slavoj Žižek).