The Experience of God: A Postmodern Response

About the Contributors

Contributors Michael F. Andrews is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University, where he also directs the Faith and the Great Ideas Program . He has published in Analecta Husserliana and The Husserl Circle and has contributed to The Phenomenology of Prayer, ed. Bruce Benson and Norman Wirzba (Fordham University Press). He is currently working on a study of Edith Stein’s phenomenology of empathy. Jeffrey Bloechl is Edward Bennett Williams Fellow and Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of Liturgy of the Neighbor: Emmanuel Levinas and the Religion of Responsibility (Duquesne University Press), and the editor of The Face of the Other and the Trace of God: Essays on the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas (Fordham University Press) and Religious Experience and the End of Metaphysics (Indiana University Press). He is also the translator of Roger Burggraeve’s The Wisdom of Love in the Service of Love (Marquette University Press) and of Jean-Louis Chrétien ’s The Unforgettable and the Unhoped For (Fordham University Press). John D. Caputo is the Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Humanities at Syracuse University. His newest books are The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event (Indiana University Press, forthcoming ) and Augustine and Postmodernism: Confessions and 247 Circumfession, coedited with Michael Scanlon (Indiana University Press). His recent publications include On Religion (Routledge), More Radical Hermeneutics: On Not Knowing Who We Are (Indiana University Press), The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion without Religion (Indiana University Press), Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida (Fordham University Press). He also serves as editor of the Fordham University Press book series ‘‘Perspectives in Continental Philosophy’’ and as Chairman of the Board of Editors of Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory. Kristine A. Culp is Dean of the Disciples Divinity House of the University of Chicago and Senior Lecturer in Theology at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. She has written on feminist and womanist theologies, on Christian community, on protest and resistance as theological themes, and on the use of fiction in theological construction. She is currently completing a book entitled Ambiguity, Community, Salvation: A Theology of Life Together before God. Kevin Hart is Notre Dame Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, where he directs the Program in Religion and Literature and edits Religion and Literature. He is the author of The Trespass of the Sign (Cambridge University Press; rev. ed. Fordham University Press), A.D. Hope (Oxford University Press), Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property (Cambridge University Press), Postmodernism: A Beginner ’s Guide (Oneworld), and The Dark Gaze: Maurice Blanchot and the Sacred (Chicago University Press). He is the coeditor, with Geoffrey Hartman, of The Power of Contestation: Perspectives on Maurice Blanchot (Johns Hopkins University Press) and, with Yvonne Sherwood, of Derrida and Religion: Other Testaments (Routledge). The author of several collections of poetry, Kevin Hart’s most recent collection is Flame Tree: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe). Kevin L. Hughes is Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University. He is the author of Constructing Antichrist (Catholic University of America Press), and has published articles in Modern Theology, Heythrop Journal, and Augustinian Studies. He is currently working on a study of St. Bonaventure. Jean-Yves Lacoste is Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and a parish priest in Paris. His publications include Experience and the Absolute (Fordham University Press), Note sur le temps: essai sur les raisons 248 Contributors de la mémoire et l’espérance (Presses Universitaire de France) and Le Monde et l’absense de l’oevre, et autre etudes (Presses Universitaire de France). He is the editor of the Encyclopedia of Christian Theology (Routledge). Crystal J. Lucky is Associate Professor of English, Africana Studies , and Women’s Studies at Villanova University, where she teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century African-American literature. She is currently working on a critical edition of the autobiography of Charlotte Riley, a nineteenth-century preaching woman from South Carolina (forthcoming from the University of Wisconsin Press). She is also an ordained elder in the Church of the Living God International . Renee McKenzie is the Rector of Calvary Episcopal Church, NL, in Philadelphia. She recently completed her doctorate at Temple University with a dissertation entitled, ‘‘A Womanist Social Ontology: An Exploration of the Self / Other Relationship in Womanist Religious Scholarship.’’ Kim Paffenroth is Associate...