and important starting point for the theologian's composition of language about God.
40. These remarks deliberately echo Jacques Derrida's "Tympan," his preface to The Margins of Philosophy (1982). In it he describes the problem of presenting to philosophy what is other to it, when one way in which philosophy defines itself is precisely through its appropriation of its other(s). In "Tympan" he outlines the strategies that occupy the volume, the tracing of the margins of philosophical texts, in order to raise uncomfortably the question of that other which those texts cannot account for. Though the project of finding the margins of theology through comparison is not identical with Derrida's project, his remarks are helpful in delineating the magnitude and contours of the process involved.
41. On the general problem of "generalization" and the "example," see Bourdieu 1977, pp. 16-22.
