Ephiphanies of Darkness: Deconstruction in Theology
by Charles E. Winquist
Book Description:
With Epiphanies of Darkness The Davies Group is proud to
issue the revision of a work that is so important a part of the literature of
deconstructive theology as a key title in our new series in Philosophical and
Cultural Studies in Religion.
Few religious thinkers have the philosophical sophistication of this author.
This book is profound in its ability to bring together much of what is deepest
and most disturbing in our age with the reality of a theological desire for
more. Epiphanies of Darkness represents a searching and courageous appraisal of
the state of theological discourse, as well as a powerful intervention into that
discourse, with the aim of completely reconstituting what we mean by theology.
Author Biography: Charles E. Winquist (PhD, University of Chicago) joined the
faculty of Syracuse University as Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion in
1986. His research and teaching specialties are philosophical theology, critical
theory, and hermeneutics. Among his publications are Desiring Theology (1995),
Theology at the End of the Century (1990), Practical Hermeneutics (1980),
Homecoming (1978), Communion of Possibility (1975), and The Transcendental
Imagination (1972). Professionally active at the national level, he has held
several offices in the American Academy of Religion and served as executive
director from 1979-82.
Editorial Reviews:
"It is a wonderful thing to have Professor Winquist's Ephiphanies of
Darkness available again. I think personally that this is his best
book because of the uncanny balance between a highly poetical language, a
language of rare beauty and emotional investment, on the one hand, and a
penetrating theoretical insight on the other, an insight that self-confidently
charted the then-unexplored territory without ever failing to maintain doubts
about the possibility of such a pursuit."
-Ale Debeljak, Chair, Department of
Cultural Studies, University of Ljubljana
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgments
Appendix: The Deconstruction of the Theology
of Proclamation
Index