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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Baker Academic, Div of Baker Publishing Group (1 Nov 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0801031362
  • ISBN-13: 978-0801031366
  • Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 13.7 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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This provocative addition to "The Church and Postmodern Culture" series offers a lively rereading of Charles Sheldon's "In His Steps" as a constructive way forward. John D. Caputo introduces the notion of why the church needs deconstruction, positively defines deconstruction's role in renewal, deconstructs idols of the church, and imagines the future of the church in addressing the practical implications of this for the church's life through liturgy, worship, preaching, and teaching. Students of philosophy, theology, religion, and ministry, as well as others interested in engaging postmodernism and the emerging church phenomenon, will welcome this provocative, non-technical work.


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John D. Caputo (PhD, Bryn Mawr College) is Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Humanities and professor of philosophy at Syracuse University. He is the author of numerous books, including The Weakness of God (winner of the 2007 AAR Award for Excellence in Constructive-Reflective Study of Religion), On Religion, The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida, and Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, 7 Jan 2008
By Simon Lee (Co. Down) - See all my reviews
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I have now read several of Caputo's books and have found them all to be very insightful and almost prophetic. This his latest is intended for a popular audience, but is nevertheless well worth reading no matter what level you normally read at. You will find it addictively readable, not only because of the facinating subject matter, but his eloquence and clarity. If you do not enjoy this book you are not interested in modern theology.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Deconstruction: the Hermeneutics of the Kingdom, 19 Nov 2007
By K. S. Moody (Lancaster, UK) - See all my reviews
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John D. Caputo's What Would Jesus Deconstruct? The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church (2007) is the second in Baker Academic's The Church and Postmodern Culture series.

The first (James K.A. Smith's [2006] Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?) was a good introduction to three postmodern "bumper stickers" ("there is nothing outside the text," "incredulity towards metanarratives," and "power is knowledge"), and argued that `a "radical orthodoxy" is the only proper outcome of the postmodern critique' (Smith 2006:25). The second, however, gives more voice to doubt than to orthodoxy.

At heart, this book is a call (kletos) to deconstruction through an exposition of the phrase What Would Jesus Deconstruct?. Caputo argues that there is a deeply deconstructive event that `stirs within the figure of Jesus' (Caputo 2007:26), and that deconstruction is the hermeneutics of the kingdom of God, a kingdom which he has described elsewhere as a `kingdom without kingdom' (Caputo, The Weakness of God). This book is a call to deconstruct the name of God / Jesus / Church / Kingdom in order to release the event that stirs within these names.

So, what would Jesus do? `...what Jesus does, is deconstruct' (2007:30), and with Caputo's accessible presentation of deconstruction comes a plethora of its correlatives: hyperrealism, undecidability, destinerrancy (possibly my favourite Derridean neologism at the moment!), vocation, theo-poetics, weakness, justice, the impossible, gift, forgiveness, hospitality, and love - all explained clearly and used artfully in an argument for the auto-deconstructive spirit within the Christian tradition.

Similar to the format of Smith's first volume, What Would Jesus Deconstruct?'s last chapter considers the future of the church, through John McNamee's (1993) Diary of a City Priest and Pete Rollins' (2006) How (Not) to Speak of God - the title of which you'll understand a lot more after Caputo's previous explanation of the step/not (pas) (2007:42ff). These are two very different texts, both with a lot to say about the place of doubt, of uncertainty, of the impossible. As Caputo writes, `faith is impossible, the impossible; one is called on to have faith in a world in which it is impossible to believe anything... Doubt as the condition of faith, not its opposite, making faith possible as (the) im/possible' (2007:121).

Who is this book's audience? The Religious Right? The emerging church? I would recommend this call to anyone. But, be prepared to be stirred, to say the least!!!

Finally, I love Caputo's (Eckhartian) emphasis on Jesus' prayer, Eloi Eloi, lama sabachthani, as the `perfectly auto-deconstructing prayer: it is addressed to God - which presupposes our faith that we are not abandoned - and asks why God has abandoned us' (2007:127). I love that.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Deconstruction and renewal, 8 April 2009
By Helen Hancox "Auntie Helen" (Essex, England) - See all my reviews
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This was a fascinating and enjoyable book. John D Caputo's writing style was always engaging and the book was very easy to read for a philosophy book on a fairly complex subject. He looks at Charles Sheldon's book 'In His Steps', published in 1896, alongside works by Jacques Derrida on deconstruction, weaving these two together to get a handle on how Jesus might deconstruct the church - not demolishing it in a negative way but drawing out peace and righteousness and the kingdom of God from two millennia of post-Jesus church building.

Caputo writes very much from his personal opinion and I enjoyed many of his amusing asides. He talks incisively about many of the failings of the religious Right, although also has things to say about the weakness and ineptness of the Left. I felt that the book was rather weighed down by its series preface/foreword/acknowledgements/introduction before it began, and that the real meat of the content didn't appear until fairly late on in the short book at chapter 5. That chapter was a brilliant read, however, deconstructing the church through the lens of the Sermon on the Mount, and was worth the price of the book alone.

This is an excellent read for those interested in a different angle in the postmodern debate and explains enough that those unfamiliar with deconstruction should understand it.
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