God, the Gift, and Postmodernism

CONTRIBUTORS

CONTRIBUTORS JOHN D. CAPUTO holds the David R. Cook Chair of Philosophy at Villanova University. His most recent publications include The Prayers and Tears ofJacques Derrida: Religion without Religion (1997), Deconstruction in a Nutshell: AConversation with Jacques Derrida (1997), AgainstEthics (1993), and Demythologizing Heidegger (1993). He has served as Executive CoDirector of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, is a past president ofthe American Catholic Philosophical Association, and was a member of the National Board of Officers of the American Philosophical Association. JOHN DOMINIC CROSSAN, Professor Emeritus, Religious Studies, DePaul University, was Co-Chair of the Jesus Seminar from 1985 to 1996, editor of Semeia: An Experimental Journal for Biblical Criticism, and former Chair of the Historical Jesus Section in the Society of Biblical Literature. He has written eighteen books on the historical Jesus, most recently The Historical Jesus: The Life ofa Mediterranean Jewish Peasant (1991), Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (1994), Who Killed Jesus: Exposing the Roots ofAnti-Semitism in the Gospel Story ofthe Death ofJesus (1995), and The Birth ofChristianity (1998). He has appeared on segments ofthe BBC's Lives of Jesus, PBS's From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians, and A&E's Mysteries ofthe Bible series. JACQUES DERRIDA, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and the University of California-Irvine, is one of this century's most important philosophers. Among his more recent works are Cosmopolite de tous les pays, encore un effort! (1997), De l'hospitalite (with Anne Dufourmantelle ) (1997), and Marx en jeu (with Marc Guillaume and Jean-Pierre Dumont) (1997). His most recent work to be translated into English is Resistances to Psychoanalysis (1998). He has recently been lecturing on hospitality, witnessing, and forgiveness. ROBERT DODARO, aSA., Professor of Patristics and Vice-President at the Patristic Institute in Rome, is co-editor ofAugustine: Select Letters and Sermons (forthcoming) and Augustine and His Critics (forthcoming), and has 311 CONTRIBUTORS JOHN D. CAPUTO holds the David R. Cook Chair of Philosophy at Villanova University. His most recent publications include The Prayers and Tears ofJacques Derrida: Religion without Religion (1997), Deconstruction in a Nutshell: AConversation with Jacques Derrida (1997), AgainstEthics (1993), and Demythologizing Heidegger (1993). He has served as Executive CoDirector of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, is a past president ofthe American Catholic Philosophical Association, and was a member of the National Board of Officers of the American Philosophical Association. JOHN DOMINIC CROSSAN, Professor Emeritus, Religious Studies, DePaul University, was Co-Chair of the Jesus Seminar from 1985 to 1996, editor of Semeia: An Experimental Journal for Biblical Criticism, and former Chair of the Historical Jesus Section in the Society of Biblical Literature. He has written eighteen books on the historical Jesus, most recently The Historical Jesus: The Life ofa Mediterranean Jewish Peasant (1991), Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (1994), Who Killed Jesus: Exposing the Roots ofAnti-Semitism in the Gospel Story ofthe Death ofJesus (1995), and The Birth ofChristianity (1998). He has appeared on segments ofthe BBC's Lives of Jesus, PBS's From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians, and A&E's Mysteries ofthe Bible series. JACQUES DERRIDA, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and the University of California-Irvine, is one of this century's most important philosophers. Among his more recent works are Cosmopolite de tous les pays, encore un effort! (1997), De l'hospitalite (with Anne Dufourmantelle ) (1997), and Marx en jeu (with Marc Guillaume and Jean-Pierre Dumont) (1997). His most recent work to be translated into English is Resistances to Psychoanalysis (1998). He has recently been lecturing on hospitality, witnessing, and forgiveness. ROBERT DODARO, aSA., Professor of Patristics and Vice-President at the Patristic Institute in Rome, is co-editor ofAugustine: Select Letters and Sermons (forthcoming) and Augustine and His Critics (forthcoming), and has 311 Contributors published articles inAugustinianum, the Journal of Ecclesiastical History, and Augustinian Studies. He is preparing a book, Language and Justice: Political Anthropology in Augustine's City of God, based on his Oxford dissertation (1993); co-authoring Theology through the Looking Glass, an Augustinian critique of mass media and theology (forthcoming); and preparing a major study ofAugustine's use of decorum theory in his theology. RICHARD KEARNEY is Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin and Boston College. In addition to his well-known The Wake of Imagination (1988), his most recent books include Poetics of Imagining (1991), Postnationalist Ireland (1997), and Poetics ofModernity (1995). He is editor of Continental Philosophy in the Twentieth Century and co-editor ofQuestioning Ethics: Contemporary Debates in...