Postmodern Theory and Biblical Theology

Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Note on translations of the bible; Introduction: Postmodernism, Ontotheology and Christianity: 1. The modernist ground of postmodern theory; 2. Nietzsche/Heidegger/Derrida on ontotheology; 3. Nietzsche/Heidegger/Derrida on Christianity; Part I. Nietzsche's Mockery: The Rejection of Transcendence: 1. The death of God: loss of belief in the Christian God as the cause of nihilism; 2. Vanquishing God's realm: Nietzsche's abolition of the true world; 3. Nietzsche on the Judaeo-Christian denial of the world and the world to come in the New Testament; 5. On redemption: the eternal return or biblical eschatology; Part II. Heidegger's Forgetting: The Secularisation of Biblical Anthropology: 6. From the death of God to the forgetting of Being; 7. Heidegger's theological origins: from biblical theology to fundamental ontology; 8. The redemptive-eschatological separation of flesh and Spirit in the epistles of the Apostle Paul; 9. Inauthenticity and the flesh; 10. The eigentlich Selbst or the pneumatikos anthropos; Part III. Derrida's Denials: The Deconstruction of Ontotheology: 11. From the ends of man to the beginning of writing; 12. Deconstituting the subject; 13. Writing and metaphysics; 14. Reading the law: the Spirit and the letter; 15. Scripture of écriture; the limitations of Derrida's deconstruction of ontotheology; Conclusion: Ontotheology, Negative and the theology of the Cross: 1. Denials; negating/negative theology; 2. From ontotheology to the theology of the cross; Bibliography.