Desire, gift, and recognition [Texte imprimé] : christology and postmodern philosophy / Jan-Olav Henriksen

Index

Biblbiogr. p. 368-375

Christ from other angles -- Christology as the impossible -- A sketch of the main constructive elements to be used, and for what purpose -- Angles for a postmodern christology -- Post-metaphysical prologue : on the Word "God" and its meaning for a Christology searching for other angles -- In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was "God" (John 1:1) -- God, the Word -- Why start christology with God? -- Desire -- Exploring christological doctrine from the angle of desire? -- Desire within a broader framework of human life, and its possible implications for christology -- Gift and grace -- Derrida on gift (1992) -- Desire and gift -- The economy of grace : Tanner -- Recognition -- Recognition and desire in Hegel -- Recognition of the other and desire in Levinas -- Identity issues -- Who is this human? -- Unstable identities of descent and assent as reflected in Matthew 1 -- King among Kings? -- The mother and identity : perspectives from Kristeva -- Relativizing family ties as basis for identity, a different community -- Who do they say that I am? : the outcome of Mark 8 -- The other approach to identity : John -- Christ as the true Imago Dei -- Excursus : Nietzsche's understanding of the human as the alternative to the notion of Imago Dei -- Unity between human and God : identity again -- Who is God? -- Difficulties concerning God-talk in the Markian narrative -- God's care, sufficient? -- The kingdom as gift, the impossibility of an "economic" God -- God as the object of love and desire -- The kingdom of God, as witness about God - Summing up Jesus' teaching about God : God as burglar? -- A major image of God and tensions : the Prodigal son -- God as Abba -- Jesus functioning as God -- Hospitality and forgiveness in Derrida : opening up to God -- Who is righteous? : the kingdom and the disruption of economies of merit and money -- A community of excess -- Excursus : the community of the church as a sign of the kingdom -- Jesus' reinterpretation of the law : the law in the triadic relation -- The theo-logy of generosity: let God be God! -- Rationale of the law and justice behind the law -- The last judgment : Christ as judge and witness to justice -- You are saved by your faith! -- Three encounters -- Recognition and rejection -- Conclusion -- Jesus as revealing answers to questions of identity -- Did Jesus have a nature? Or two -- Critique of the two-nature doctrine and new attempts -- Christ as God's representation : the semiotic angle -- Death and circumstances of death : the closing of the open world -- The drama of Easter and its victim -- Judas and Peter as models -- Judas' betrayal -- Peter's denial -- Perpetrators and bystanders : collective evil reconsidered -- Envious desire -- Evil and identity -- Bystanders -- Jesus as a scapegoat preventing violence? : reflections on René Girard's theory -- Mimetic desire and the mechanisms behind scapegoating -- Girard on the non-sacrificial death of Christ -- Dalferth : sacrifice as non-necessary -- Anselm's Cur deus homo and beyond : escaping the trap of exchange and violence -- J.D. Weaver : alternatives to Anselm's violence -- Kathryn Tanner on the link between incarnation, cross, and sacrifice -- Salvation as finding one's place : C. Gestrich -- The crucifixion as realization of identity : the gift of recognition and representation -- The scandalous gift : the cross -- Recognition in Hegel : relevant for staurology? -- From recognition to representation -- Death as a conclusio and abandonment -- Implications and consequences -- Epilogue to part III : identity issues revisited -- Resurrection and incarnation as gift -- The impossible impossible : resurrection from other angles -- Resurrection faith, recognition, and gift : Marion -- On the inconclusiveness of historical evidence -- The Paulinian core argument, a discussion -- Resurrection as manifestation of incarnation : Dalferth -- Conclusion: Resurrection as the symbol for a reopened future