The Otherness that Is Only Difference:

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" The Otherness that Is Only Difference: "
Matthew Powell

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1082821
Doc. No	:	LA126450
Call No	:	‭10.1163/102308009X12561890523717‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Matthew Powell
Title & Author	:	The Otherness that Is Only Difference: [Article] : Theological Speculation for a Post-Traditional World\ Matthew Powell
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and Theology
Date	:	2009
Volume/ Issue Number	:	16/3-4
Page No	:	273–297
Abstract	:	"This essay creates a dialogue between George Steiner, Jacques Derrida, and Mark C. Taylor that seeks to address the need for new theological perspectives in a world overcome by the absence of God. In claiming that the current crisis of religious identity that plagues the Western world is the product of the breakdown of theological traditions, the essay attempts to explore the potential of that breakdown as the source for a new type of theological speculation that seeks the ultimate source of authentic religious identity in an otherness that is only difference. The result is a type of "atheology" that seeks to ground theological speculation in a Wholly Other whose inexplicable call leads us past the concept of "God" and toward an unknowing that is the only source of true knowledge. This essay creates a dialogue between George Steiner, Jacques Derrida, and Mark C. Taylor that seeks to address the need for new theological perspectives in a world overcome by the absence of God. In claiming that the current crisis of religious identity that plagues the Western world is the product of the breakdown of theological traditions, the essay attempts to explore the potential of that breakdown as the source for a new type of theological speculation that seeks the ultimate source of authentic religious identity in an otherness that is only difference. The result is a type of "atheology" that seeks to ground theological speculation in a Wholly Other whose inexplicable call leads us past the concept of "God" and toward an unknowing that is the only source of true knowledge."
Descriptor	:	ATHEOLOGY
Descriptor	:	DIFFERENCE
Descriptor	:	POST-TRADITIONAL
Descriptor	:	RELIGIOUS IDENTITY
Descriptor	:	WHOLLY OTHER
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/102308009X12561890523717‬