RT Article
T1 Ending Christian Hegemony: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Ends of Eurocentric Thought
JF Open theology
VO 8
IS 1
SP 14
OP 27
A1 Dickinson, Colby 1975-
LA English
PB De Gruyter
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1828259942
AB This essay addresses Jean-Luc Nancy’s "deconstruction of Christianity" and how what Christianity proclaims through enacting a deconstruction of itself brings an end to the western, hegemonic hold that Christian imperialism has perpetuated for centuries. Nancy, for his part, takes up the name of Christianity insofar as it is a religious phenomenon that signals a trajectory of thought in the West that must be discerned as providing an "exit from religion and of the expansion of the atheist world." Since deconstructing the dominant narratives of the West means deconstructing the myth of a sovereign, autonomous deity whose reign, Nancy declares, has reached its end, Christianity utilizes its own kenotic narrative to point toward the end of religion and Eurocentrism at the same time.
K1 Jean-Luc Nancy
K1 Adoration
K1 antinomian
K1 deconstruction of Christianity
K1 dis-enclosure
K1 Inoperativity
K1 Messianic
DO 10.1515/opth-2020-0191