Introduction and historical context
Historical context : from modernism to postmodernism
Deconstruction and its roots in Europe
Jean-François Lyotard : the dissolution of the metanarrative
The deconstructionism of Jacques Derrida
Michel Foucault : the end of man?
Deconstruction in America
Mark C. Taylor : embracing nihilism
Richard Rorty : pragmatic postmodernism
Deconstruction in Britain
Don Cupitt : theological necrophilia
Apologetic methodology in view of deconstructionist concerns
Preliminary methodological considerations
Christian appeals to deconstructionist concerns : lessons from the book of Acts
Apologetic engagement and dialogue
Apologetic imagination
Apologetic groundwork : are any "foundations" possible?