In Luther after Derrida, Marisa Strizzi argues that Luther’s theology has a significant deconstructive drive and, through the careful reading of texts, illustrates how this theology interacts with Derrida's thought.

This book creatively engages Martin Luther’s theology and Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction in a systematic theological enterprise. Guided by the general question of how to think about theology in postmodern times within a given tradition, Marisa Strizzi meticulously follows deconstruction at work, focusing on distinctive theological elaborations. She argues that Luther’s theology has a significant deconstructive drive and, through the thorough reading of texts, illustrates the ways in which such theology is interactive with the thought of Derrida. Intersections, echoes, and mirrors allow a happy exchange in which the vital theological topics of Luther meet key deconstructive motifs. Thus, the cross, the Deus absconditus, scriptura, fides, gratia and Christo encounter khōra, écriture, the gift, faith, the messianic and autoimmune sovereignty. Strizzi solidly sustains that the deconstructive reading of theological traditions proves to be a critical constructive way of honoring them.

Part I. Tremors

I.1 Reading Luther after Derrida

I.2 A Certain Strategy

I.3 On Metaphysics

I.4 Deconstructive Readings

Part II. Subversion and Displacement

II.5 Knowing Otherwise

II.6 The posteriora Dei

II.7 Otherwise than Knowing

II.8 The Deus absconditus

Part III. Four Deconstructive Gaps

III.9 Sola scriptura: Nothing Outside the Text?

III.10 Sola fide: “Yes, yes…”

III.11 Sola gratia: The Aneconomy of the Gift

III.12 Solus Christus: Something Happens to God

Part IV. The Deconstructive Drive of Luther’s Theology

IV.13 A happy exchange