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What Would Jesus Deconstruct? The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

One of the components of postmodernism is the idea of deconstruction, founded by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. Many in the church who are wrestling with ministry in a postmodern era would view deconstruction as a negative aspect of the postmodern movement. But John Caputo, one of the leading philosophers of religion in America and a leading voice on religion and postmodernism, sees it...

The relation with the other person is therefore a journey we never complete, where that incompleteness is not an imperfection but testimony to the perfect excess of the other; it is not a loss but a source of endless novelty and discovery. Were the opposite true, our relation to the other would be ruined (an important philosophical point that is spoofed in the Mel Gibson film What Women Want). We can never be sure of what is going on in the heart of the other but we affirm that distance rather than
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