Reply to Jonkers

Abstract

It is impossible to read Peter Jonkers’ reflection on Postmodernity’s Transcending without picking up his sense of disappointment and bewilderment about the text. I want to make only a few remarks, perhaps reflecting my own disappointment at his assessment. In the first place he interprets it as a book arising out of faith. This is entirely to miss the central question in the text—which is, when we use the word ‘theology’, what do we mean by it? Inasmuch as it is written by one who is a believing Christian and who has faith, a driving question in the book is to enquire (p. 33) ‘which god is at issue: the God of faith or the God of philosophy?...