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 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.

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