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Record Nr.

UNINA9910145295003321

Autore

Ward Graham <1955->

Titolo

Christ and culture / / Graham Ward

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Massachusetts ; ; Oxford, England ; ; Carlton, Victoria : , : Blackwell Publishing, , [2005]

©2005

ISBN

9786610850969

0-470-77654-4

0-470-77724-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Collana

Challenges in contemporary theology

Disciplina

232

Soggetti

Christianity and culture

Incarnation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

CHRIST AND CULTURE; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One THE ECONOMY OF RESPONSE; 1 Christology and Mimesis; 2 The Schizoid Christ; 3 The Body of the Church and its Erotic Politics; Part Two ENGENDERING CHRIST; 4 Redemption: Between Reception and Response; 5 Divinity and Sexual Difference; 6 The Politics of Christ's Circumcision (and the Mystery of all Flesh); Part Three THE LIVING CHRIST: ECONOMIES OF REDEMPTION; 7 Allegoria Amoris: A Christian Ethics; 8 Spiritual Exercises: A Christian Pedagogy; 9 Suffering and Incarnation: A Christian Politics; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Leading theologian Graham Ward presents a stimulating series of reflections on Christ and contemporary culture. Takes as its starting point Niebuhr's famous volume on 'Christ and Culture' published in the 1970s Explores representations of Christ from sources as diverse as the New Testament and twentieth-century continental philosophy Considers Christ and culture in the light of contemporary categories such as the body, gender, desire, politics and the sublime Develops an original and imaginative Christology rooted in Scriptural exegesis and concerned with today'