SOURCE: Lichtmann, Maria. “Negative Theology in Marguerite Porete and Jacques Derrida.” Christianity and Literature 47, no. 2 (winter 1998): 213-27.

In the following essay, Lichtmann maintains that The Mirror of Simple Souls anticipates several postmodern, deconstructionist themes such as “the disappearance of the self,” “the insatiability of desire,” and “the subversion of authority.”

In his book titled Deconstructing Theology, Mark C. Taylor outlines some themes of a postmodern “theology”:

Deconstruction directs our attention to critical problems which merit serious consideration: the death of God, the disappearance of the self, the erasure of the (A)uthor, the interplay of absence and presence and of silence and speech, the encounter with death, the experience of exile, the insatiability of desire, the inevitability of delay, the burden of totality, the repression of difference, the otherness of the Other, the subversion of authority, the end of the book, the opening of textuality, and the advent...