Questioning God

Contents

Contents acknowledgments / ix Introduction: God Forgive John D. Caputo, Mark Dooley, Michael J. Scanlon / 1 PART I. FORGIVING 1. To Forgive: The Unforgivable and the Imprescriptible Jacques Derrida / 21 2. On Forgiveness: A Roundtable Discussion with Jacques Derrida moderated by Richard Kearney / 52 3. Returning/Forgiving: Ethics and Theology Robert Gibbs / 73 4. Forgiveness and Incarnation John Milbank / 92 5. The Catastrophe of Memory: Derrida, Milbank and the (Im)possibility of Forgiveness Mark Dooley / 129 PART II. GOD 6. The God Who May Be Richard Kearney / 153 7. ‘‘Absolute Interruption’’: On Faith Kevin Hart / 186 Response by Jacques Derrida 8. Questioning Narratives of God: The Immeasurable in Measures Regina Mara Schwartz / 209 Response by Jacques Derrida 9. ‘‘Idipsum’’: Divine Selfhood and the Postmodern Subject Jean Greisch / 235 10. The Humiliated Self as the Rhetorical Self Michael J. Scanlon / 263 Contents viii 11. Questioning God Graham Ward / 274 12. What Do I Love When I Love My God? Deconstruction and Radical Orthodoxy John D. Caputo / 291 13. The Scandals of the Sign: The Virgin Mary as Supplement in the Religions of the Book Cleo McNelly Kearns / 318 14. Being, Subjectivity, Otherness: The Idols of God Francis Schüssler Fiorenza / 341 contributors / 371 index / 375 ...