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In 15 insightful essays, Jacques Derrida and an international group of scholars of religion explore postmodern thinking about God and consider the nature of forgiveness in relation to the paradoxes of the gift. Among the themes addressed by contributors are the possibilities of imagining God as unthinkable, imagining God as non-patriarchal, imagining a return to Augustine, and imagining an age in which praise is far more important than narrative. Questioning God moves readers beyond the parameters of metaphysical reason and modernist rationality as it attempts to think the questions of God and forgiveness in a postmodernist context.

Contributors include John D. Caputo, Jacques Derrida, Mark Dooley, Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, Robert Gibbs, Jean Greisch, Kevin Hart, Richard Kearney, Cleo McNelly Kearns, John Milbank, Regina M. Schwartz, Michael J. Scanlon, and Graham Ward.

Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion -- Merold Westphal, general editor

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  1. Cover
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  1. Front Matter
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. p. ix
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  1. Introduction: God Forgive
  2. pp. 1-18
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  1. PART I. FORGIVING
  1. One: To Forgive: The Unforgivable and the Imprescriptible
  2. pp. 21-51
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  1. Two: On Forgiveness: A Roundtable Discussion with Jacques Derrida
  2. pp. 65-85
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  1. Three: Returning/Forgiving: Ethics and Theology
  2. pp. 73-91
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  1. Four: Forgiveness and Incarnation
  2. pp. 92-128
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  1. Five: The Catastrophe of Memory:Derrida, Milbank, and the (Im)possibility of Forgiveness
  2. pp. 129-149
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  1. PART II. GOD
  1. Six: The God Who May Be
  2. pp. 153-185
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  1. Seven: ‘‘Absolute Interruption’’: On Faith
  2. pp. 186-208
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  1. Eight: Questioning Narratives of God: The Immeasurable in Measures
  2. pp. 222-247
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  1. Nine: "Idipsum": Divine Selfhood and the Postmodern Subject
  2. pp. 235-262
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  1. Ten: The Humiliated Self as the Rhetorical Self
  2. pp. 263-286
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  1. Eleven: Questioning God
  2. pp. 274-290
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  1. Twelve: What Do I Love When I Love My God? Deconstruction and Radical Orthodoxy
  2. pp. 291-330
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  1. Thirteen: The Scandals of the Sign: The Virgin Mary as Supplement in the Religions of the Book
  2. pp. 318-340
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  1. Fourteen: Being, Subjectivity, Otherness: The Idols of God
  2. pp. 341-369
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  1. contributors
  2. pp. 371-373
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 375-379
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