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Book SynopsisThis book aims for nothing short than a renewal of theological thinking by extending and radicalizing an iconoclastic and existentialist mode of thought. Meditative and aphoristic instead of argumentative, this book offers an original and constructive engagement with seminal issues such as indifference, belief, madness, and love.
Trade Review"The Rebellious No is an important and original contribution to contemporary theological thinking. Vahanian's secular theology of language is intense, meditative and brilliant, and culminates in a profound vision of how rebellion and love are inseparable from each other." -- -Clayton Crockett University of Central Arkansas "Noelle Vahanian's writing style is pithy, playful, allusive, and often entertaining." -- -James H. Olthuis Institute for Christian Studies "God and Being are both words without referents. What is, then, the difference between them ? God is only a version of Being (Heidegger). God is "otherwise than Being" (Levinas). God survives the death of its Being (Vahanian). Such is the profound paradox of "secular theology". A fascinating achievement." -- -Catherine Malabou author of The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain Damage "The sincerity within Vahanian's style speaks as clearly to the reader as does the style of her meditations on the difficulties of sincerity." -- -Joshua Ramey Haverford College
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Milk of My Tears 2. The Law of the Indifferent Middle 3. Great Explanation 4. Madness and Civilization: The Paradox of a False Dichotomy 5. Two Ways to Believe 6. Rebellious Desire and the Real Within the Limits of the Symbolic Alone 7. Counting Weakness, Countering Power: The Theopolitics of Catherine Keller 8. Counter-Currents: Theology and the Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion 9. I Love You More Than a Big Sheriff Notes Index
