It is good to read a volume devoted to Lyotard, as, among the more well-known supposedly postmodern philosophers, he is probably the most neglected ... [E]arlier chapters provide a helpful introduction to his work.

Modern Believing

'Lieven Boeve, who has made “interruption” and “recontextualization” necessary theological household words, here rectifies the surprisingly thin engagement between Christian theology and the philosophy of Jean-François Lyotard in a masterful two-fold analysis. First, since Boeve knows the Lyotard texts all the way down, we get a superb exegesis of Lyotard's thought and why it matters. Then, Boeve's constructive reception of Lyotard's “differend” reveals the continued vital richness of the Christian open narrative for our times. This is theologizing in the grand tradition of Irenaeus, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Rahner, and Schillebeeckx: smart, clear-eyed, grounded in the Gospel and in contemporary life.'

Antony Godzieba, Villanova University, USA

Boeve has managed to render his dense subject matter accessible to readers for whom this volume is a first encounter with Lyotard's work… Boeve has produced an exemplary engagement with Lyotard as beyond just 'another thinker of difference' (8), one that does justice to the viability of Lyotard's thought and richness of its potential applications.

The Journal of Religion