@inbook{10.3366/j.ctt9qdr95.8, ISBN = {9780748684137}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt9qdr95.8}, abstract = {Iconoclastic theology breaks religious Images that are interpreted as mediators of transcendence, clearing the field of dogmatic idols so that Friends can set out a plane of immanence. It also loosens the shackles that have imprisoned thought within sacerdotal coalitions and the philosophies bound to them, liberating thinking from the Platonic domain of representation. Although these forces clearly have a destructive effect, they are also intrinsically constructive. We turn now to a third way of using a theological hammer, which maintains the element of critique but is perhaps even more explicitly creative: extending the crack on the metaphysical surface of}, bookauthor = {F. LeRon Shults}, booktitle = {Iconoclastic Theology: Gilles Deleuze and the Secretion of Atheism}, pages = {101--139}, publisher = {Edinburgh University Press}, title = {Releasing Theological Events}, year = {2014} }