
Risking Proclamation, Respecting Difference
Christian Faith, Imperialistic Discourse, and Abraham
Chris Boesel(Author)
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published on 1. January 2008
306 pages
978-1-4982-7032-8 (ISBN)
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This is a work of Christian theology that Karl Barth might call an ad hoc or secondary apologetic. Relying on a paraphrase of Anselm--"faith seeking the ethical"--Boesel engages modern and postmodern theologians and philosophers--from Kierkegaard to Barth, Ruether, Hegel, Derrida, and Levinas--to analyze the imperialistic dynamics entailed in the church's theological interpretations of the Jewish neighbor. He demonstrates the dimensions of the problem as they are paradigmatically visible in the evangelical theological assumptions of Karl Barth. Turning to Ruether's exemplary remedy of the problem, Boesel illumines the ways her analysis and critique are funded by a specific cluster of modern assumptions that constitute what he calls "modern ethical desire." Employing a reading of Levinas and Derrida, Boesel shows that these assumptions constitute an imperialistic discourse of a different order, with its own specific hostility toward the Abrahamic tradition. In light of these postmodern critiques, Boesel returns to Barth to suggest that his evangelical theological assumptions, while indeed amounting to a form of Christian interpretive imperialism in relation to the Jewish neighbor, may nevertheless determine and delimit the knowledge and speech of Christian faith in such a way that resists more toxic forms of Christian imperialism.
Broader implications of the argument follow: The ethical faces a radical limit, both in general and in relation to concrete faith. Therefore, no human remedy for the imperialistic discourse of Christian faith presents itself that does not entail an interpretive imperialism. To paraphrase Derrida: there is always an interpretive imperialism. Ethically, then, there is only discernment between different forms of interpretive imperialism. Theologically, an understanding of Christian faith as irreducible to the ethical may offer surprising though always risky ethical resourcement within this predicament of radically limited ethical possibility.
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Eugene
United States
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CHRIS BOESEL is Assistant Professor of Christian Theology at Drew University's Theological School and Graduate Division of Religion.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Preface: Setting (Not to Say, Justifying) the Argument in Auto-Biographical Context
- Acknowledgments
- Part One: An Introduction: The Problem and Its Context
- Chapter 1: Is the Good News of Jesus Christ Bad News for the Jewish Neighbor?
- Chapter 2: Kierkegaard and Hegel on Abraham: The Openness and Complexity of the Modern Context
- Part Two: The Problem: A Theological Exemplar
- Chapter 3: The Problem, Part I: The "Perfect Storm" of Christological Interpretive Imperialism
- Chapter 4: The Problem, Part II: The Good News of the Gospel and the Bad News for the Children of Abraham
- Part Three: The Remedy: A Theological Exemplar
- Chapter 5: The Remedy, Part I: Dispersing the "Perfect Storm"
- Chapter 6: The Remedy, Part II: The Debt to Modernity-Interpretive Imperialism in a Higher Key
- Chapter 7: The Remedy, Part III: Abraham Must Die
- Part Four: The Remedy as Problem, the Problem as Remedy
- Chapter 8: Postmodern Discernment and the Limits of the Ethical: The Way of Justice
- Chapter 9: The Problem as Remedy: An Interpretive Imperialism "Without Weapons"?
- Chapter 10: Conclusion: Faith Seeking the Ethical
- Bibliography
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