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vii CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction: On Necessary Interruptions 1 J.AaronSimmons Part One The Philosophical Basis for Religion with Religion One. Apologetics after Objectivity 23 J.AaronSimmons • “As Radical as One Needs to Be”—A Response to J. Aaron Simmons (BruceEllisBenson) 61 • Apologetics after Identity?—A Response to J. Aaron Simmons (StephenMinister) 69 Two. Faith Seeking Understanding 75 StephenMinister • Thinking More Positively...and Indeed Why Not? —A Response to Stephen Minister (JeffreyHanson) 113 • Religion in the Postmodern Public Square—Thinking after Stephen Minister (J.AaronSimmons) 119 Part Two Religion with Religion in Practice Three. The Phenomenon of the Good: Reconstructing Religion in the Wake of Deconstruction 131 JeffreyHanson • My Lies Are Always Wishes: Reflections on the Fictional Structure of the Statement of Faith—A Response to Jeffrey Hanson (DrewM.Dalton) 155 • Silence, Faith, and (the Call to) Goodness—A Response to Jeffrey Hanson (StephenMinister) 161 viii Contents Four. The Greatest of These: Toward a Phenomenology of Agapic Love 167 DrewM.Dalton • A Tale of Two Logics: Some Further Questions about Agape— A Response to Drew M. Dalton (JeffreyHanson) 199 • True Religion—A Response to Drew M. Dalton (BruceEllisBenson) 205 Five. “You Are Not Far from the Kingdom”: Christianity as Self-Disruptive Messianism 211 BruceEllisBenson • The Liturgy of Hermeneutics: Midrash as Open Religion with Religion— A Response to Bruce Ellis Benson (DrewM.Dalton) 229 • Perhaps Still a Bit Farther Off Than We Think—Engaging Bruce Ellis Benson (J.AaronSimmons) 235 Part Three Responses to Religion with Religion Six. Conversations on Religion with or without Religion 247 MeroldWestphal Seven. On Not Settling for an Abridged Edition of Postmodernism: Radical Hermeneutics as Radical Theology 271 JohnD.Caputo Notes 355 About the Contributors 401 Index 403 ...

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