Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-22-2021

Publication Title

Open Theology

Volume

8

Abstract

This essay addresses Jean-Luc Nancy’s “deconstruction of Christianity” and how what Christianity proclaims through enacting a deconstruction of itself brings an end to the western, hegemonic hold that Christian imperialism has perpetuated for centuries. Nancy, for his part, takes up the name of Christianity insofar as it is a religious phenomenon that signals a trajectory of thought in the West that must be discerned as providing an “exit from religion and of the expansion of the atheist world.” Since deconstructing the dominant narratives of the West means deconstructing the myth of a sovereign, autonomous deity whose reign, Nancy declares, has reached its end, Christianity utilizes its own kenotic narrative to point toward the end of religion and Eurocentrism at the same time.

Issue

1

Publisher Name

De Gruyter

Pages

14-27

Comments

Author Posting © The Author(s), 2021. This article is posted here by permission of De Gruyter for personal use and redistribution. This article was published open access on Open Theology, VOL.8, ISS.1, (December 22, 2021), https://doi.org/10.1515/opth-2020-0191

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