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- Title
After the World's End, before the Resurrection: Thinking Mourning and Christian Hope after Jacques Derrida.
- Authors
Horton, Sarah
- Abstract
In light of Jacques Derrida's writings on death and mourning, it may seem that the Christian teaching that the dead will be raised is a betrayal of others, a failure to take up one's responsibility to testify to those who have died. In conversation with Emmanuel Falque's work on finitude, Martin Heidegger's reading of 1 Thessalonians, and Søren Kierkegaard's reading of Abraham, I respond in two movements to this objection to faith that God will raise the dead. First, I propose that even for the Christian, the death of the other remains a loss, since the Christian must surrender the other to God. It is, however, this very surrender of the other to God that seems to be an abdication of responsibility. Second, therefore, I argue that faith in the resurrection decenters the self and challenges our understanding of responsibility even more than does Derrida's own analysis. Faith, I conclude, means giving up the desire to cling to one's own responsibility.
- Subjects
THEOLOGY; CHRISTIANITY; RELIGIONS; CHRISTIAN life; RELIGIOUS doctrines
- Publication
Modern Theology, 2024, Vol 40, Issue 2, p373
- ISSN
0266-7177
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/moth.12884