Browsing by Author "Platts, Adrian"

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    Jacques Derrida, the sacred other and Seventh-day Adventism stumbling on the creative play of différance in Genesis 1
    (2012) Platts, Adrian; Cochrane, James
    This thesis searches for that which is sacred to Jacques Derrida and ultimately concludes that if anything is sacred to him it is the other. This concern for the sacred is an attempt to ascertain Derrida’s relevance and value for religious traditions. Derrida’s ideas serve to destabilise (sacred) centres in religious traditions in order to find place for the (excluded) other. Hence, a central theme of this dissertation is that there are no stable centres. I have attempted to demonstrate this in the structure I have followed, a structure that is "centred on" decentring ideas that, while not arbitrary, could have been substituted for others: negative theology, the other, detours, khôra and différance.
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    Seventh-day Adventism and the sanctuary doctrine : deconstructing Adventist identity via a soteriology of hospitality
    (2006) Platts, Adrian
    The purpose of this dissertation is to upset exclusive and sectarian tendencies in the Seventh-day Adventist Church via an application of Jacques Derrida's notion of hospitality to Adventist soteriology.