After Writing: On the Liturgical Cosummation of PhilosophyISBN: 978-0-631-20671-2
Hardcover
320 pages
December 1997, Wiley-Blackwell
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"After Writing establishes Catherine Pickstock as one of
the most promising young theologians in the English-speaking world.
The book is insightful, provocative, and of consistently high
scholarly quality." L. Gregory Jones, Duke University
"I applaud the thesis of this impressive work." Paul Avis,
Center for the study of the Christian Church Exeter
"One could in conscience recommended this volume only to the
ambitious and determined, but they will find it rich, and Pickstock
is a name to be watching for." William C. Placher, Christian
Century
"Catherine Pickstock, has perhaps written the best riposte yet
to the archbishop's request for a 'spiritual space' within the
Millennium Dome." C. W. Kemp
"Pickstock's discussion of Derrida is sophisticated." Bryan
D. Spinks, Yale University
"Lightning may now be said to have struck in the form of
Catherine Pickstock's After Writing, a bright flash in the
sometimes murky world of religion and Postmodernism." David
Williams, Religion & Literature
"its theses are destined to be the subject of much discussion."
Tracey Rowland, Gonville & Caius College,
Cambridge
"Her argument deserves to be widely discussed: it is genuine
theology, an example of what might be done were Christian
theologians to abandon idolatry and take seriously the reality of
the triune God to whom their work is supposed to be subject."
Paul Griffiths, University of Chicago
"The proposal of a radical self-surpassing giftedness in the
eucharist invites the possibility of future conversations with
other hermeneutical positions." David Livingston, Mercyhurst
College
"This a book of real originality, and in its finest moments it achieves an almost visionary intensity ... She is extraordinarily gifted, and I suspect that in this book we have merely glimpsed her portent." Pro Ecclesia