The Logic of Incarnation: James K. A. Smith's Critique of Postmodern ReligionNeal DeRoo, Brian Lightbody With his Logic of Incarnation, James K. A. Smith has provided a compelling critique of the universalizing tendencies in some strands of postmodern philosophy of religion. A truly postmodern account of religion must take seriously the preference for particularity first evidenced in the Christian account of the incarnation of God. Moving beyond the urge to universalize, which characterizes modern thought, Smith argues that it is only by taking seriously particular differences--historical, religious, and doctrinal--that we can be authentically religious and authentically postmodern. Smith remains hugely influential in both academic discourse and church movements. This book is the first organized attempt to bring both of these aspects of Smith's work into conversation with each other and with him. With articles from an internationally respected group of philosophers, theologians, pastors, and laypeople, the entire range of Smith's considerable influence is represented here. Discussing questions of embodiment, eschatology, inter-religious dialogue, dogma, and difference, this book opens all the most relevant issues in postmodern religious life to a unique and penetrating critique. |
Contents
Towards a Catholic Postmodernism | 3 |
Determination and Revelation | 41 |
On Universality and Christian Particularism in a Postmodern | 57 |
Does Derridas Ethics depend | 71 |
Tasting the Inscape of Haecceity with Hopkins the Franciscan | 84 |
Defending a Universalizable Culture of Particularities With | 99 |
Derrida and the Emerging | 111 |
BackwardsJames Vanderberg | 120 |
Andre Basson | 128 |
Experiencing the Modern and the Postmodern in Canada | 139 |
Is James K A Smith Afraid of Postmodernity? | 157 |
A Conversation with James | 168 |
The Eschatological Structure of Hope | 182 |
Is the Grace that Calls WhaleRiders Back to Catholicism | 193 |
Continuing the ConversationJames K A Smith | 203 |
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