The Story of Christianity

Christianity from deconstruction point of view Christianity from postmodern point of view is the story of marginal people, a story of sinners, a story of disbelief in God, a story of suffering humanity, a story of fleeing from God, a story of infidelity, a story of decentralization of power, a story of service, a story of Poor God and Rich People, a story of victims, a story of concern for the other, a story of faith, a story of commitment and a story of life-giving. I would like to supplement the above with two examples of deconstruction one taken from Old Testament (Deconstruction of Ethics) while the other is from New Testament (Deconstruction of Justice). The Old Testament portrays clearly Abraham as the father of Christian faith. The act of Abraham sacrificing his own son is paradoxical because it is guided neither by reason nor by an ethics justifiable before human beings or before the law of some universal tribunal.In other words, it is the deconstruction of morality and immorality and responsibility and irresponsibility.It is the absolute duty which demands that one should behave in an irresponsible manner while still recognizing, confirming and reaffirming the very thing one sacrifices, namely the order of human ethics and responsibility. In a word, ethics must be sacrificed in the name of duty. In other words, he went beyond the laws and ethics of his time in sacrificing his own son and his only son for God In the Gospel of St Mark, Jesus deconstructs justice by affirming that the laws are meant to enhance and further human life. The statement of Jesus ‘The Sabbath was made for human being and not human being for Sabbath,’ is a clear deconstruction of the law which will pave way to justice in the world. The Pharisees obeyed the law blindly and expected an identical response to the law from others as well. Jesus claims to the autonomy of human being to invoke the law as the context requires it. In other words, Jesus desires unstoppable creative efforts to interpret the law.