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The Writing of the Kingdom: Thirty‐Seven Aphorisms Towards an Eschatology of the Text
Author(s) -
Hart D. Bentley
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
modern theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.144
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1468-0025
pISSN - 0266-7177
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0025.00121
Subject(s) - eschatology , transcendental number , hegelianism , subjectivity , philosophy , dialectic , epistemology , ontology , realm , postmodernism , literature , theology , art , history , archaeology
Starting from the question of the identities—in a given text—of author and reader, subsumed under the broader (Hegelian and post‐Hegelian) question of “self” and “other” in exteriority, this essay attempts a theological response in three critical moments: the first follows the transcendental tradition of Western thought from the (Cartesian) turn towards transcendental subjectivity to the collapse of the dialectics of subjectivity in “postmodern” thought; the second moves the problem of exteriority from the realm of recognition that of promise and expectation (eschatology); and the third formulates a Trinitarian ontology of distance that accommodates this eschatology.