Michael Pugliese wrote:
(are theologians hip to Habermas? And did I really see a
>book on Derrida and God, the other day?)
>
Derrida is all the rage among theologians who are big on negative theology. At the university where I'm a grad student (Catholic U., I'm their token atheist), one of the phil. professors, a specialist on pagan and Christian neoplatonism, is a big fan of deconstruction. He uses Derrida to teach negative theology. JD, I believe, wrote an essay on Pseudo-Dionysus' "The Divine Names."
I read some essays a while back in a book entitled "Habermas and Theology." Mostly Protestant theologians. Habermas wrote an amusing introduction giving his imprimatur to the book, saying in effect that "well, I have no idea why my ideas should be relevant to theologians, but I'll accept that these people know what they're talking about," if I recollect properly.
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