Rejoinder to Giovanni Maltese

Abstract

In this brief rejoinder, I respond to Maltese’s three areas of questions. Taking the first two together, I explain that my use of verticality is not primarily a theological move but a theoretical one: attending to it reveals how the various structuralisms that pervade Christian ways of seeing the world are deeply entwined. In response to the third, I suggest that it is both possible and worthwhile to ascertain particularities of different cultural–religious perspectives in our work, so long as we also strive to problematize and historicize them at the same time.