Reddit reviews What Would Jesus Deconstruct?: The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church (The Church and Postmodern Culture)

/u/Demon_Nietzsche made a good point about the various interests which comprise this community. That being said, a lot of ideas here are founded on philosophy (especially continental philosophy and critical theory) and radical politics (Marxism, etcetera).

This thread from /r/askphilosophy might interest you. Here are some recommendations I gave:

> In the vein of religious existentialists, the big ones that I can think of are Søren Kierkegaard, Karl Jaspers, Martin Buber, Gabriel Marcel, Paul Tillich, and Nikolai Berdyaev. The Russians Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky might also be thrown into that list.

> Postmodern philosophy, in general, can get quite complex, and very quickly, too. Here are some books I would recommend if you haven't done too much background reading:

• James K.A. Smith – Who's Afraid of Postmodernism: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
  
• James K.A. Smith – Who's Afraid of Relativism: Community, Contingency, and Creaturehood
  
• John Caputo – What Would Jesus Deconstruct?
  
• Peter C. Blum (former professor and dear friend) – For a Church to Come: Experiments in Postmodern Theology and Anabaptist Thought

What Would Jesus Deconstruct? and The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event by John Caputo.

Phenomenology of Spirit by Hegel.

Origen: An Exhortation to Martyrdom, Prayer, and Selected Works

The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? by Slavoj Zizek and John Milbank

The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich

The Gay Science and The Antichrist by Nietzsche

God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse by Slavoj Zizek and Boris Gunjevic

The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism

After the Death of God by John Caputo and Gianni Vattimo

I see different understandings of postmodernism/deconstruction show up all over depending on context. Iain Thomson seems to offer OP's understanding of deconstruction in his analysis of Watchmen. I've seen a slightly different understanding offered by John Caputo. Apparently Jean-Luc Marion might also have something "deconstructive" going on in his work. I haven't read Derrida firsthand yet, so I can't really say how close all these approaches are to their source of inspiration, although I've noticed some overlapping themes in all of them, as well as in the contemporary art history course I took, so while I'm not sure there's a single definition, there's at least some consistent thematic content going on in 'deconstruction', whatever it may be. Part of the confusion probably comes from the fact that Derrida's earliest readers in English were literary critics and theorists rather than philosophers, which meant that parts of Derrida weren't properly understood right away, which probably has contributed to some of the confusion.