Merold Westphal is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University and author of Suspicion and Faith: The Religious Uses of Modern Atheism.

"...A welcome addition to Christian philosophy and to the interpretation of religious themes in contemporary Continental thought." -Philosophia Christi "Westphal's arguments are illuminating and provocative..." -Academic Printing and Publishing "Westphal here brings together his discussions over the last decade of how Christianity can and should engage and appropriate post-modernism...it's easily the best contribution to the discussion that I know of." -- -Nicholas Wolterstorff Yale University

• THE ESSAYS INCLUDED IN THE VOLUME: Overcoming Onto-theology Heidegger's Theologische Jugendschriften Hermeneutics As Epistemology Appropriating Postmodernism Christian Philosophers and the Copernican Revolution Totality and Finitude in Schleiermacher's Hermeneutics Positive Postmodernism As Radical Hermeneutics Father Adam and His Feuding Sons: An Interpretation of the Hermeneutical Turn in Continental Philosophy Deconstruction and Christian Cultural Theory: An Essay on Appropriation Laughing at Hegel Derrida As Natural Law Theorist Faith As the Overcoming of Ontological Xenophobia Divine Excess: The God Who Comes After Nietzsche As a Theological Resource

Merold Westphal is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University and author of Suspicion and Faith: The Religious Uses of Modern Atheism.

"...A welcome addition to Christian philosophy and to the interpretation of religious themes in contemporary Continental thought." -Philosophia Christi "Westphal's arguments are illuminating and provocative..." -Academic Printing and Publishing "Westphal here brings together his discussions over the last decade of how Christianity can and should engage and appropriate post-modernism...it's easily the best contribution to the discussion that I know of." -- -Nicholas Wolterstorff Yale University

• THE ESSAYS INCLUDED IN THE VOLUME: Overcoming Onto-theology Heidegger's Theologische Jugendschriften Hermeneutics As Epistemology Appropriating Postmodernism Christian Philosophers and the Copernican Revolution Totality and Finitude in Schleiermacher's Hermeneutics Positive Postmodernism As Radical Hermeneutics Father Adam and His Feuding Sons: An Interpretation of the Hermeneutical Turn in Continental Philosophy Deconstruction and Christian Cultural Theory: An Essay on Appropriation Laughing at Hegel Derrida As Natural Law Theorist Faith As the Overcoming of Ontological Xenophobia Divine Excess: The God Who Comes After Nietzsche As a Theological Resource