the fall of interpretation

Response to Downing: Police at Play

James K. A. Smith
August 9, 2012 / The Church & Postmodern Culture

Mea culpa.  How else could I respond to Crystal Downing’s gracious, rightly-critical engagement with The …

The Ghost in The Fall

Crystal Downing
August 6, 2012 / The Church & Postmodern Culture

Unlike Jacques Derrida, who was haunted by specters of Karl Marx, I am haunted by …

Response to DeRoo: Whose Church? Which Ecclesiology?

James K. A. Smith
August 2, 2012 / The Church & Postmodern Culture

I love it that each of my interlocutors has homed in on quite different themes …

“I am the Church, you are the Church, we are the Church together…”

Neal DeRoo
July 30, 2012 / The Church & Postmodern Culture

I first read The Fall of Interpretation (FoI) in the Fall of 2002. I had …

Response to Bowald: Sins of Omission

James K. A. Smith
July 26, 2012 / The Church & Postmodern Culture

I’m profoundly grateful to these scholars for taking time to carefully, critically, and charitably engage …