Hey guys, my name is Johnny Artivannis and this is Dialin.

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Nathan Boosnitz, the dean at the Master's Seminary,

and I ask him about the subject of deconstruction,

a subject that has grown in popularity in recent years amongst many

professing evangelicals and amongst those who formerly profess to be a Christian,

but have since left the faith. you're going to want to listen

to this episode with Dr. Nathan Boosnitz.

Let's dial in.

Well, Dr. Boosniz, thank you once again for sitting down.

I wanted to talk to you about a rising and growing term in the evangelical sphere. It's known as deconstruction. And even within that term, there's a number of different ways that people define it. But we often hear it being referenced synonymously with deconversion. And then sometimes people use the label ex-vangelical to describe their experience as someone

who once was a part of the church, loved God, served God, and now because of things being exposed

in the word or in their faith, they're leaving the faith.

At least that's one of the ways that it's being popularly identified as.

But how do we look and understand the subject or the topic of deconversion?

And I guess the best way to start is what does that even mean?

Well, deconstruction is something that arose in philosophical circles in the 20th century through French philosopher,

Jacques Derrida.

And he introduced this idea of deconstructionism where you take philosophical systems or worldviews.

And the idea is that you take them apart into their component parts, and then you evaluate

each component part, and you discard the parts that you think are unhelpful, and then you kind of

reassemble it into something that is supposed to be an improvement over what you had before.

And those ideas were taken by Syracuse professor, John Caputo, who applied them to religion and to faith.

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