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The devil reads Derrida : and other essays on the university, the church, politics, and the arts / James K.A. Smith.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2009.Description: xxii, 163 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780802864079 (pbk.)
  • 0802864074 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 261 22
LOC classification:
  • BR50.S653 2009 17231
Contents:
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.
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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.

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