The Rebellious No

Noëlle Vahanian is Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Lebanon Valley
College in Annville, Pennsylvania. She is the author of Language, Desire, and Theology: A
Genealogy of the Will to Speak.

—Catherine Malabou:

God and Being are both words without referents. What is, then, the difference between them ? God is only a version of Being (Heidegger). God is "otherwise than Being" (Levinas). God survives the death of its Being (Vahanian).
Such is the profound paradox of "secular theology". A fascinating achievement.

—Clayton Crockett:
The Rebellious No is an important and original contribution to contemporary theological thinking. Vahanian’s secular theology of language is intense, meditative and brilliant, and culminates in a profound vision of how rebellion and love are inseparable from each other.

—James H. Olthuis:
“Noëlle Vahanian’s writing style is pithy, playful, allusive, and often entertaining.”