22.See "The Cheating of Crytalus" by Merold Westphal in
Modernity and its Discontents, ed. by John
Caputo and Merold Westphal, Bronx: Fordham University Press, 1992].
55. Some attempts have been made by Christian philosophers to welcome the insights of what I am calling the "critical philosophers." Merold Westphal, for example,
has written a book entitled Suspicion and Faith: The Religious uses of Modern Atheism, which is an attempt at critical self-reflection upon our sometimes idolatrous religiosity by meditating on the critical insights of Marx, Nietzsche,
and Freud, three of the best-known atheists of all time. [
Westphal, Merold. Suspicion and Faith. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdman's Publishing Co., 1993]. He has also written many articles about the religious significance of Levinas. [See Merold Westphal's "Levinas and the Immediacy of the Face" in
Faith and Philosophy, Vol 10, No 4, October 1993; and his "Kierkegaard and Levinas in Dialogue" in
Kierkegaard in Post/Modernity]. Martin J.Matustik and Merold Westphal, eds.
Bloomington, IN: University of Indiana Press, 1995. Paul Ricouer (U. of Chicago) has also done religious work in relation to Marx, Freud and Nietzsche. James Marsh (Fordham) is a Christian Marxist, Galen Johnson (U. Rhode Island) has done work regarding Nietzsche and Christianity [
Galen Johnson, "Faith After Nietzsche" in Christian Perspectives on Religious Knowledge, ed. by C. Steven Evans and Merold Westphal. Grand rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1993.], John D. Caputo (Villanova) has written on Derrida and Christian thought [
John D. Caputo. "The Good News About Alterity: Derrida and Theology" in Faith and Philosophy, Vol 10, No 4, October 1993].