Crisis and change : religion, ethics and theology under late modern conditions / edited by Jan-Olav Henriksen and Tage Kurten.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Henriksen, Jan-Olav.

Kurtén, Tage.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and culture.

Christian ethics.

Religion and ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle Upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A common basis for the project on which this volume is based is that one cannot understand religion and ethics Otherout paying attention to the different contexts in, and by means of which, these cultural elements are expressed. This approach makes both religion and ethics liquid, and allows us to see them as based on specific contingencies rather than as expressions of some essential features. The changing societal and cultural conditions in late modern Western societies pose new challenges ...

Contents:

Religion, ethics and theology under change / Jan-Olav Henriksen and Tage Kurten

Lutheran moral thinking: its dilemma in a late modern setting / Tage Kurten

"Am I my brother's keeper?" Postmodern conditions for theological ethics / Eskil Skjeldal

Using their reproductive autonomy or buying their way out of moral dilemmas? The rhetorical construction of cross-border reproductive travel in and from the Nordic countries / Lise Kanckos

Post-secular alternative politics: the case of l'Arche / Miika Tolonen

The church does (not) apologize: the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Finland and the Civil War of 1918 / Heidi Jokinen

Post-modernity and the de-secularization of Europe: an Eastern European perspective / Vija Herefoss

Post-secularity and post-Constantiniamism: the case of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Finland / Patrik Hagman

Contextuality and revelation: on the interplay between a postmodern focus on contextuality and the theological concept of Revelation / Kristin Graff-Kallevag

The God of the unfinished: trust and distrust in Finno-Swedish poetry / Carina Nynas

Aesthetics and language: transcending the dichotomy between aesthetics and language in the light of philosophy of Jacques Derrida / Johannes Hvaal Solberg

Contextuality and universality in post-modern philosophy of religion / Asle Eikrem

Old wine in new wineskins? On the lasting impact of critique of religion on the understanding of God in the theology of the twentieth century / Jan-Olav Henriksen.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

1-280-48641-4

9786613581396

1-4438-3824-1

OCLC:

795631954