The devil reads Derrida :
Smith, James K. A., 1970-
The devil reads Derrida : and other essays on the university, the church, politics, and the arts / James K.A. Smith. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2009. - xxii, 163 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The church, Christian scholars, and Little Miss Sunshine -- Faith on the ground : on discipleship. Working at rest -- The secret lives of saints : reflections on doubt -- Are men really wild at heart? / with Mark Mulder -- Pope John Paul II : a Protestant's appreciation -- Teaching a Calvinist to dance : on being Reformed and Pentecostal -- The architecture of altruism : on loving our neighbor(hood)s -- Schools of faith : on the university. Are students "consumers"? -- Why Christianity is sexier than liberal democracy -- Between the university and the church : the precarious (and promising) site of campus ministry -- Schools of thought, or, Why the state shouldn't fund MBAs -- A commencement, a wedding, and an alternative politics -- Lost in translation? : on the secularization of the fall -- Faith in America : on politics and the church. Christian worship as public disturbance -- How to get your hands dirty -- Introduction: God, the future, and the politics of freedom : reflections on "open theism" -- It only hurts when I laugh : why Harper's won't change America -- The economics of the emerging church -- The pendulum of Evangelicals and politics : on Greg Boyd's Myth of a Christian nation -- The God of Americanism : on Mitt Romney's "faith in America" -- Constantinianism of the left? : on Jim Wallis and Barack Obama -- Leftish Constantinianism revisited : an interview -- The last prophet of Leviathan : on Mark Lilla's The stillborn God -- Picturing faith : criticism. Absence as a window : on the poetry of Franz Wright -- Dumbing down discernment? -- The devil reads Derrida : fashion, French philosophy, and postmodernism -- Our history of violence -- Harry Potter and the prophet of doom -- Passing on The passion -- Faith in the flesh in American beauty : Christian reflections on film -- A prayer.
9780802864079 (pbk.) 0802864074 (pbk.)
Christianity--21st century.
Philosophical theology.
Christianity and culture.
Christianity and politics.
BR 50 / .S653 2009
The devil reads Derrida : and other essays on the university, the church, politics, and the arts / James K.A. Smith. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2009. - xxii, 163 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The church, Christian scholars, and Little Miss Sunshine -- Faith on the ground : on discipleship. Working at rest -- The secret lives of saints : reflections on doubt -- Are men really wild at heart? / with Mark Mulder -- Pope John Paul II : a Protestant's appreciation -- Teaching a Calvinist to dance : on being Reformed and Pentecostal -- The architecture of altruism : on loving our neighbor(hood)s -- Schools of faith : on the university. Are students "consumers"? -- Why Christianity is sexier than liberal democracy -- Between the university and the church : the precarious (and promising) site of campus ministry -- Schools of thought, or, Why the state shouldn't fund MBAs -- A commencement, a wedding, and an alternative politics -- Lost in translation? : on the secularization of the fall -- Faith in America : on politics and the church. Christian worship as public disturbance -- How to get your hands dirty -- Introduction: God, the future, and the politics of freedom : reflections on "open theism" -- It only hurts when I laugh : why Harper's won't change America -- The economics of the emerging church -- The pendulum of Evangelicals and politics : on Greg Boyd's Myth of a Christian nation -- The God of Americanism : on Mitt Romney's "faith in America" -- Constantinianism of the left? : on Jim Wallis and Barack Obama -- Leftish Constantinianism revisited : an interview -- The last prophet of Leviathan : on Mark Lilla's The stillborn God -- Picturing faith : criticism. Absence as a window : on the poetry of Franz Wright -- Dumbing down discernment? -- The devil reads Derrida : fashion, French philosophy, and postmodernism -- Our history of violence -- Harry Potter and the prophet of doom -- Passing on The passion -- Faith in the flesh in American beauty : Christian reflections on film -- A prayer.
9780802864079 (pbk.) 0802864074 (pbk.)
Christianity--21st century.
Philosophical theology.
Christianity and culture.
Christianity and politics.
BR 50 / .S653 2009