Review 63: The Literary Culture of the Reformation: Grammar and Grace (Brian Cummings)

Cummings is indebted to Derrida's deconstructionism, and he tries to cast the reformation as a 'word game' with much 'distance.' I suspect that he misquotes his sources to advance his thesis(see his section on Montaigne's 'war of words'). His emphasis on the reformation as a literary and grammatical event is beneficial. Otherwise, his work is subject to the usual critiques of decontruction (see Van Hoozer's "Is There a Meaning...").