Postmodern Theory and Biblical Theology Vanquishing God's Shadow [Paperback]

This book examines the relationship between Christian theology and postmodern thinkers, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida.Arguing that Christianity was an unacknowledged influence on Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida and postmodernism, this book examines the relationship between postmodernism and Christianity. It demonstrates the priority of the Judaeo-Christian tradition over attempts to displace it.Arguing that Christianity was an unacknowledged influence on Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida and postmodernism, this book examines the relationship between postmodernism and Christianity. It demonstrates the priority of the Judaeo-Christian tradition over attempts to displace it.This book examines the relationship between postmodernism and Christianity. Postmodernism claims Christianity is ripe for dismantling. Professor Ingraffia argues against the version of Christianity constructed by Nietzsche, Heidegger and Derrida. Attempts to reconcile contemporary critical theory with biblical theology ignore Christianity's distinct identity. Christianity was, he argues, an unacknowledged influence on Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, and much of postmodernism, thereby demonstrating the priority of the Judaeo-Christian tradition over attempts to displace it.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 thl“Æ