The Blackwell companion to postmodern theology / edited by Graham Ward.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ward, Graham, 1955-

Series:

Blackwell companions to religion.

Blackwell companions to religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postmodern theology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (560 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This Companion provides a definitive collection of essays on postmodern theology, drawing on the work of those individuals who have made a distinctive contribution to the field, and whose work will be significant for the theologies written in the new millennium. The definitive collection of essays on postmodern theology, drawing on the work of those individuals who have made a distinctive contribution to the field. Each essay is introduced with a short account of the writer's previous work, enabling the reader to view it in context. Discusses the followin

Contents:

The Blackwell Companion to Postmodern Theology; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction: "Where We Stand"; Part I Aesthetics; 1 Postmodern Theology as Cultural Analysis; 2 The Man Who Fell to Earth; 3 Communion and Conversation; 4 The Ends of Man and the Future of God; 5 "Lush Life": Foucault's Analytics of Power and a Jazz Aesthetic; Part II Ethics; 6 The Midwinter Sacrifice; 7 Postmodernity and Religious Plurality: Is a Common Global Ethic Possible or Desirable?; 8 The Christian Difference, or Surviving Postmodernism; 9 Justice and Prudence: Principles of Order in the Platonic City

10 Visiting Prisoners11 Suffering and Incarnation; 12 Earth God: Cultivating the Spirit in an Ecocidal Culture; Part III Gender; 13 An Ethics of Memory: Promising, Forgiving, Yearning; 14 Is Macrina a Woman? Gregory of Nyssa's Dialogue on the Soul and Resurrection; 15 "They Will Know We are Christians by Our Regulated Improvisation": Ecclesial Hybridity and the Unity of the Church; 16 On Changing the Imaginary; 17 Companionable Wisdoms: What Insights Might Feminist Theorists Gather from Feminist Theologians?; Part IV Hermeneutics

18 Shattering the Logos: Hermeneutics Between a Hammer and a Hard Place19 The Renewal of Jewish Theology Today: Under the Sign of Three; 20 Intending Transcendence: Desiring God; Part V Phenomenology; 21 Transfiguring God; 22 Presence and Parousia; 23 The Formal Reason for the Infinite; 24 Religions as Conventions; Part VI Heideggerians; 25 The Self-Saving of God; 26 The Subject of Prayer: Unwilling Words in the Postmodern Access to God; 27 The Christian Message and the Dissolution of Metaphysics; Part VII Derrideans; 28 The Poetics of the Impossible and the Kingdom of God

29 Anti-Discrimination30 Is There a Postmodern Gospel?; 31 Indian Territory: Postmodernism Under the Sign of the Body; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611213633

9781782686392

1782686398

9781281213631

1281213632

9780470997123

0470997125

9780470998342

0470998342

9780585468143

0585468141

OCLC:

184983709