Colby Dickinson is Associate Professor of Theology at Loyola University, Chicago. He is the author of Agamben and Theology (T&T Clark, 2011), Between the Canon and the Messiah (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Words Fail: Theology, Poetry, and the Challenge of Representation (Fordham University Press, 2016, as well as numerous articles on contemporary continental philosophy and theology. He is editor of The Postmodern 'Saints' of France (2013) and The Shaping of Tradition: Context and Normativity (2013).