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Record Nr.

UNINA9910143506703321

Titolo

The Blackwell companion to postmodern theology [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Graham Ward

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Publishers, 2005

ISBN

1-78268-639-8

1-281-21363-2

9786611213633

0-470-99712-5

0-470-99834-2

0-585-46814-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (560 p.)

Collana

Blackwell companions to religion

Altri autori (Persone)

WardGraham <1955->

Disciplina

230/.046

Soggetti

Postmodern theology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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