TY - BOOK AU - Smith,James K.A. TI - The devil reads Derrida: and other essays on the university, the church, politics, and the arts SN - 9780802864079 (pbk.) AV - BR 50 .S653 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - Grand Rapids, Mich. PB - William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. KW - Christianity KW - 21st century KW - Philosophical theology KW - Christianity and culture KW - Christianity and politics N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Introduction; 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 --; 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 ER -