Postmodern Theory and Biblical Theology: Vanquishing God's Shadow

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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 ecriture 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.