Includes bibliographical references and index

Appropriating postmodernism / Merold Westphal -- On the uses and advantages of an epistemology for life / W. Jay Wood -- Postmodernism as a kind of modernism : Nietzsche's critique of knowledge / Lee Hardy -- Is the postmodern post-secular? : the parody of religious quests in Thomas Pynchon's The crying of lot 49 and Don De Lillo's White noise / Brian D. Ingraffia -- Against appropriation : postmodern programs, claimants, contests, conversations / Gary Percesepe -- The hermeneutics of difference : Barth and Derrida on words and the Word / Garrett Green -- The bitterness of Cain : (post)modernity's flight from determinacy / Walter Lowe -- Sketch of a phenomenological concept of gift / Jean-Luc Marion -- Against idolatry : Heidegger and natural theology / George Connell -- Yearning for home : the Christian doctrine of creation in a postmodern age / Steve Bouma-Prediger -- Toward a postmodern theology of the cross : Augustine, Heidegger, Derrida / John D. Caputo -- Emmanuel Levinas and Hillel's questions / Edith Wyschogrod -- Love's reason : from Heideggerian care to Christian charity / Norman Wirzba -- Between exclusivity and plurality : toward a postmodern Christian philosophy of other religions / Andrew J. Dell'Olio