“Faith without faith is precisely such an impossible, a translation of the impossible and impassable, forced to make its way in the midst of an aporia; faith without faith is precisely—faith. Otherwise it is not a battle, not through a glass darkly, but a high road assured of success. The deconstruction of faith, which has nothing to do with its simple destruction—au contraire!—saves faith from closing around itself by opening this wounded discourse to the wound of translatability or substitutability. Undecidability and substitutability do not form a bottomless pit down which every decision is dropped never to be heard from again. They constitute rather the haze of indefiniteness with which decision must daily cope, the gluey, glassy glas which conditions even very ordinary decisions, in which the urgency and passion of decision are nourished. The quasi-theses of translatability, substitutability, undecidability, open up the space in which faith fights its good fight and tries to save its good name.”

The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida | John D. Caputo

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