The Postmodern God P Book

	Notes on Contributors
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction, or, A Guide to Theological Thinking in Cyberspace
1	Georges Bataille (1897-1962): Introduction	3
	Bataille Text: From Theory of Religion	15
2	Jacques Lacan (1901-1981): Introduction	25
	Lacan Text: The Death of God	32
3	Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995): Introduction	45
	Levinas Texts: God and Philosophy	52
4	Roland Barthes (1915-1980): Introduction	74
	Barthes Text: Wrestling with the Angel: Textual Analysis of Genesis 32: 23-32	84
5	Rene Girard (b. 1923): Introduction	96
	Girard Text: The God of Victims	105
6	Michel Foucault (1926-1984): Introduction	116
	Foucault Text: From The History of Sexuality	123
7	Michel de Certeau (1925-1986): Introduction	135
	Certeau Texts: How is Christianity Thinkable Today? and White Ecstasy	142
8	Jacques Derrida (b. 1930): Introduction	159
	Derrida Text: From How to Avoid Speaking	167
9	Luce Irigaray (b. 1930): Introduction	191
	Irigaray Text: Equal to Whom?	198
10	Julia Kristeva (b. 1941): Introduction	215
	Kristeva Text: From In the Beginning was Love	223
11	From Patriarchy into Freedom: A Conversation between American Feminist Theology and French Feminism	235
12	Liturgy and Kenosis, from Experience et Absolu	249
13	Postmodern Critical Augustinianism: A Short Summa in Forty-two Responses to Unasked Questions	265
14	Metaphysics and Phenomenology: A Summary for Theologians	279
15	Asyndeton: Syntax and Insanity. A Study of the Revision of the Nicene Creed	297
16	New Jerusalem, Old Athens, from The Broken Middle	318
17	Saintliness and Some Aporias of Postmodernism, from Saints and Postmodernism	341
	Index	356