The Rebellious No : Variations on a Secular Theology of Language Hardback

This book aims to renew theological thinking by extending and radicalizing an iconoclastic and existentialist mode of thought.

It proposes a theology whose point of departure assumes and accepts the critiques of religion launched by Nietzsche, Freud, Marx, and Feuerbach but nevertheless takes theological desire seriously as a rebellious force working within, but against, an anthropomorphic, phallogocentric worldview. As a theology of language, it does not claim any privileged access to some transcendent divine essence or ground of Being.

On the contrary, for Noelle Vahanian theology is a strictly secular discourse, like any other discourse, but aware of its limitations and wary of great promises-its own included.

Its faith is that this secular theological desire can be a force against the constitutive indifference of thought, and it is a meditative act of rebellion.

Aphoristic instead of argumentative, this book offers an original and constructive engagement with such seminal issues as indifference, belief, madness, and love.