Description
Book SynopsisAdam Kotsko makes the case for the continued relevance of Christian theology for contemporary intellectual life, demonstrating its vibrancy as a creative and constructive pursuit outside the church, rethinking its often rivalrous relationship with philosophy, and tracing the theological roots of modern models of governance and racial oppression.
Table of ContentsPreface | xi
Introduction: What Is Theology? | 1
PART I : THEOLOGY BEYOND THE LIMITS OF RELIGION ALONE
Bonhoeffer on Continuity and Crisis: From Objective Spirit to Religionless Christianity | 27
Resurrection without Religion | 39
Toward a Materialist Theology: Slavoj Žižek on Thinking God beyond the Master Signifier | 50
PART II : THEOLOGY UNDER PHILOSOPHICAL CRITIQUE
The Failed Divine Performative:
Reading Judith Butler’s Critique of Theology with Anselm’s On the Fall of the Devil | 63
Translation, Hospitality, and Supersession:
Lamin Sannehand Jacques Derrida on the Future of Christianity | 79
Agamben the Theologian | 94
PART III : THEOLOGY AND THE GENEALOGY OF THE MODERN WORLD
The Problem of Evil and the Problem of Legitimacy | 109
Modernity’s Original Sin: Toward a Theological Genealogy of Race | 122
The Trinitarian Century: God, Governance, and Race | 143
Acknowledgments | 165
Notes | 167
Bibliography | 183
Index | 191
