"Clayton Crockett develops a powerful and original account of how psychoanalytic insights can serve both as a critique of theological orthodoxies and as a resource for a postmodern theology. In a move that runs counter to newly revived conservative theologies such as that of Radical Orthodoxy, Crockett inscribes psychoanalysis into religious thought He tackles such thorny issues as that of language and its relation to the real in Wittgenstein and Lacan, as well as the claim that schizophrenia expresses the crisis of truth in language. Nor does Crockett shy away from considering the ways in which the traditional philosophies of Plato and Aristotle reverberate in contemporary postmodern explorarions of the problem of God. Following his earlier study of Kant's view of the sublime, this new work turns to Freud's notion of sublimation as a provocative and fruitful disturbance that resists modernity's depiction of representation In sum, the present work offers penetratiung analyses of distinct but overlapping themes, ethics, schizophrenis God the real and language."—Edith Wyschogrod, Professor Emerita, Rice University

“Crockett’s book is much more than an intervention into contemporary theological debates: it is an intervention that will change the very terms of these debates. . . . It articulates a unique position that can only adequately be named Christian materialism. Crockett deploys the emancipatory core of Christianity that sustains every authentic radical politics.”—Slavoj Zizek, University of Ljubljana

"Draws on psychoanalytic theory and Continental philosophy to develop a radical postmodern theology."—The Chronicle of Higher Education