A metaphysician and a deconstructionist walk into a bar. . .

Really nice conversation between Gary Gutting and John Caputo about religious belief at the Stone here.

Gutting's interventions are great, with the exception of: "After all the deconstructive talk, the law of noncontradiction still holds."

No. No. No. Deconstruction in part shows exactly where it fails (cf. Chapter 14 of Priest's Beyond the Limits of Thought). This is not just Priest's appropriation of Derrida (as making a version of Russell's paradox) though. In the interview itself, Caputo puts enough on the table to suggest an enclosure paradox with respect to religious belief and practice.

I wish I could assign Kvanvig's "Affective Theism and Reason's for Faith" as a homework assignment and then be a fly on the wall as Gutting and Caputo discussed it. That would be pretty cool.