The Insistence of God: A Theology of Perhaps

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index 301 Adams, Jill Peterson, 295n30 Agamben, Giorgio, 64, 78, 154, 234, 239–40, 255 Althaus-Reid, Marcella, 46 Altizer, T. J. J., 137, 272n4 Angelus Silesius (Johannes Scheffler), 35, 238, 259 animals, 64, 89, 113, 117, 160, 170–71, 193, 212, 216, 217, 220, 232, 238, 243, 248, 251, 252, 253; animal needs of Jesus, 169–70, 179; Derrida on, 173–74, 281n1; of Jesus, 4, 167, 170, 173, 175–76, 196; Zarathustra’s, 32, 159. See also divinanimality; Mary and Martha, story of apologetics, 67, 98, 99, 101, 188 Aquinas, St. Thomas, 12, 36, 67, 139, 142, 143, 161, 215, 239, 284, 290n12 Aristotle, 40, 89, 199–200, 215; Heidegger, on, 199–200; Malabou on, 116, 118, 121, 125–26, 128, 130 atheism: binary opposition to theism of, 4, 9, 66, 81, 112, 137, 138, 142, 165, 168, 180, 226, 246; garden variety, 30; and the Kantians, 98–103 Augustine, St., 28, 31, 46, 64, 67, 74, 91, 99, 101, 109, 112, 133, 143, 169–70, 175, 226 Bachelard, Gaston, 202, 284n6 Badiou, Alain, 96, 140, 143, 154, 191, 192, 209, 293n19 Barth, Karl, 102, 180, 201, 205, 221, 275n15 Beguines, 46 belief. See faith Bellarmine, Robert Cardinal, 257 i n d e x Berkeley, Bishop George, 198 Betcher, Sharon, 46 Blanchot, Maurice, 227 bodies: without flesh, 64, 228, 229, 232, 240, 259; as risen, 64–65, 239–40. See also animals Böhme, Jakob, 267n9 Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 46 Brassier, Ray, 142, 188–89, 193–94, 223, 226– 27, 229, 230, 240, 244–45, 255 Brentano, Franz, 198 Bruno, Giordano, 172, 267n9 call, the: of democracy, 84–85; of life, 225–26, 256; of the world, 175, 177, 230, 244, 248, 255, 262. See also event; God; hauntology Camus, Albert, 162 chance. See event, chance of; grace Chesterton, C., 139, 155–57, 265n3 chiasm: end of, 223, 256; of insistence and existence, 14–15, 17, 19, 20, 31–35, 38, 39, 145, 190, 194; of God and human, 40, 44, 45, 46, 47, 49, 116, 135, 162–64, 167, 195, 235, 250; of human and non-human, 22, 26, 29, 111, 113, 114, 115, 170, 171–76, 204–12, 217, 220; of human and the real, 200, 211, 212, 213, 214; and the humanities , 216–22; in Merleau-Ponty, 175; and religion, 256; of substance and subject in Hegel, 145 Cixous, Hélène, 54, 55, 231, 232 Climacus, Johannes. See Kierkegaard, Søren 302 index 180, 181, 186, 190, 196, 200, 204, 205, 206, 229, 231, 232, 246, 259; and Deleuze, 50, 271n14; Of Grammatology, 114, 115; and Malabou, 118, 131–35, 139; and Meillassoux , 209, 210, 213, 219, 295n29; on the new humanities, 216–20; on objectivity , 180, 246; on “perhaps,” 9, 12, 17, 20, 266n25, 267n29; and prayer, 17, 28; on the promise of the world, 168, 177; and Žižek, 139, 140, 151, 154, 155, 161, 163 desire beyond desire, 5, 8, 74, 83–85, 95, 106, 119, 149, 197, 249 Dickinson, T. Wilson, 273n6 divinanimality, 169, 270n3. See also animals displacement, 76–80 Eckhart, Meister, 20, 21, 23, 34, 43–47, 51, 54, 63, 106–107, 122, 135, 139, 142, 150, 169, 170, 178, 206, 225–26, 229, 238, 297n16; orthodoxy of, 35–36; prayer of, 43. See also Beguines; Mary and Martha, story of; without why Einstein, Albert, 220, 230, 261 Engels, Friedrich, 193 event: affirmation of, 80–82; as advent, 5, 31, 43–44, 47, 50, 122; as call, 79, 95–96, 110, 151, 163, 171, 174, 225, 231, 255; can happen anywhere, 49–53, 196; chance of, 5, 9, 13, 19, 21, 32, 33, 42, 82, 118, 120, 126, 132, 134, 135, 164, 169; and confessional theology, 61–63, 68–74, 110; and God, 9, 10, 11, 13, 33–34, 104–10, 112, 115– 16, 155, 262; and Hegel, 21, 92, 94–97, 117–35, 136–64; main characteristics of, 49–50, 82–86; making ourselves worthy of, 37–38, 46, 76, 164, 225, 231, 262, 272n13; and Malabou, 117–35; mistaken as entity, 48, 97; and perhaps, 4–9, 11, 16, 33; and radical theology, 63–68, 68–74, 110, 221–22; and science, 202; theology of, 9, 15, 24, 26, 27, 28, 30, 34, 36, 37, 48, 51, 66; of truth, 87, 111, 178–79; and Žižek, 21, 136–64. See also deconstruction ; Derrida, Jacques; faith, as foi Constantius, Constantine. See Kierkegaard, Søren continental philosophy, 22, 67, 167, 174, 178, 191, 197, 214, 259; and analytic...