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Deleuze and Theology
Author(s): Christopher Ben Simpson (Author)
- Publisher: T & T Clark International
- Publication Date: 20 Sept. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 112 pages
- ISBN-10: 056736335X
- ISBN-13: 9780567363350
Book Description
What can a theologian do with Deleuze? While using philosophy as a resource for theology is nothing new, Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) presents a kind of limit-case for such a theological appropriation of philosophy: a thoroughly ‘modern’ philosophy that would seem to be fundamentally hostile to Christian theology a philosophy of atheistic immanence with an essentially chaotic vision of the world. Nonetheless, Deleuze’s philosophy can generate many potential intersections with theology opening onto a field of configurations: a fractious middle between radical Deleuzian theologies that would think through theology and reinterpret it from the perspective of some version of Deleuzian philosophy and other theologies that would seek to learn from and respond to Deleuze from the perspective of confessional theology to take from the encounter with Deleuze an opportunity to clarify and reform an orthodox Christian self-understanding.
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About the Author
Christopher Ben Simpson is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Lincoln Christian University, USA.
