By developing postmodern homiletical possibilities that take into consideration the affirming religious import of a Derridian deconstructive analysis, this paper seeks to move beyond the crisis of veiled humanism that is all too often reflected in Protestant liberal pulpits. Primarily addressed to progressive contexts that "don't do the supernatural well," this project draws on the religious thought of Jacques Derrida, John Caputo, Jean-Luc Marion, and Emmanuel Levinas in order to develop homiletical options that imagine God otherwise than being. Instead of limiting deconstruction solely to its ethical implications (as is often the case), this project envisions a homiletic of deconstruction as a proclamation ofprayer and praise for the wholly other. Such an approach remains intellectually honest and at the same time restores theological grammar in ways that are not bound to the constraints ofprogressive Protestant liberalism and the subsequent disappearance (death?) of God.
