Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Personalia -- Introduction -- PART 1: OVERCOMING ONTO-THEOLOGY -- 1 Richard Kearney's Messianism: Between the Narrative Theology of Hermeneutics and the Negative Theology of Deconstructionism -- 2 Introduction to the Thinking of John Caputo: Religion without Religion is the Way out of Religion -- 3 The Sense of God: A Theology of the Event with Special Reference to Christianity -- 4 Jean-Luc Nancy's Deconstruction of Christianity -- PART 2: RE-CONSTRUCTIVE PHILOSOPHY FOR RELIGION -- 5 Introduction to the Thinking of Graham Ward -- 6 De Certeau and an Enquiry into Believing -- 7 The Between and the Liturgy: On Rendering W. Desmond's Philosophy Fruitful for Theology -- 8 On God and the Between -- 9 Religious Experience and the Phenomenality of God -- PART 3: PHILOSOPHICAL INTERPRETATIONS WITH POLITICAL THEOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES -- 10 René Girard's Contribution to Political Theology: Overcoming Deadlocks of Competition and Enmity -- 11 Introduction to Ellen Armour's Thinking: Race, Sex and Religion in Postmodernity -- 12 Visual Theology: Diagnosing Postmodernity -- 13 Christianity and Politics: A Biographical-Theoretical Reading of Gianni Vattimo and Alain Badiou -- Conclusion: Lessons from Philosophy for Theology, and vice versa -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.