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Graven Ideologies: Nietzsche, Derrida Marion on Modern Idolatry

Graven Ideologies: Nietzsche, Derrida Marion on Modern Idolatry

Benson, Bruce Ellis

Paperback

Religion General General Christianity

Publisher Price: $36.99

ISBN10: 0830826793
ISBN13: 9780830826797
Publisher: IVP Academic
Published: Jul 23 2002
Pages: 243
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.92
Language: English

What do the philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion have in common with Christianity? Surprisingly, they are all concerned about idolatry, about the tendency we have to create God in our own image and about what we can do about it. Can we faithfully speak of God at all without interposing ourselves? If so, how?Bruce Ellis Benson explores this common concern by clearly laying out the thought of each of these postmodern thinkers against the background of modern philosophers such as Descartes, Locke and Hume and in light of the rise of phenomenology as developed by Husserl and Heidegger. All these thinkers he brings into conversation with a full range of biblical teaching.The result is an illuminating survey ofsome key postmodern thinkers and profound insight into the nature of conceptual idolatry. Benson also exposes some of the limitations inherent in postmodern attempts to provide a purely philosophical solution to the problem of ideological idolatry.Ultimately, he argues, there is a need for something greater than human philosophy, religion or theology--namely, the biblical revelation of God in Jesus Christ.

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