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published on April 26, 2019
Derek Brown
https://doi.org/10.5840/philtheol2019423108
The Economy of Salvation
Jean-Luc Nancy¡¯s Deconstruction and Anselm¡¯s Soteriology
This paper extends Jean-Luc Nancy¡¯s engagement with St. Anselm. Specifically, while Nancy is primarily concerned with Anselm¡¯s Proslogion, this paper brings Nancy¡¯s deconstructive protocols to bear on Anselm¡¯s Cur Deus Homo. Of particular interest is Nancy¡¯s treatment of the semiological association of economics and metaphysics. Ultimately, the ¡°supplemental logic¡± developed here allows us to read Anselm¡¯s dependence on the category of debt in the context of prayer. Finally, by stressing Nancy¡¯s reception of French literary theory and poststructuralism, this paper offers an intervention into the burgeoning theological reception of Nancy, which generally sees him as a basically anti-Christian philosopher of Heideggerian, not Derridean, immanence.