Ward The Blackwell Companion to Postmodern Theology

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-99834-2
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Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Religion

This Companion provides a definitive collection of essays onpostmodern theology, drawing on the work of those individuals whohave made a distinctive contribution to the field, and whose workwill be significant for the theologies written in the newmillennium.
* * The definitive collection of essays on postmodern theology,drawing on the work of those individuals who have made adistinctive contribution to the field.
* Each essay is introduced with a short account of the writer'sprevious work, enabling the reader to view it in context.
* Discusses the following desciplines: Aesthetics, Ethics,Gender, Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, Heideggerians, andDerrideans.
* Edited by Graham Ward, one of the most outstanding and originaltheologians working in the field today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ward, Graham

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors.
Introduction: "Where We Stand".
Part I: Aesthetics:.
1. Postmodern Theology as Cultural Analysis: Mieke Bal.
2. The Man Who Fell to Earth: Gerard Loughlin (University ofNewcastle upon Tyne).
3. Communion and Conversation: Regina Schwartz (NorthwesternUniversity).
4. The Ends of Man and the Future of God: Janet Martin Soskice(University of Cambridge).
5. "Lush Life": Foucault's Analytics of Power and a JazzAesthetic: Sharon D. Welch (University of Missouri).
Part II: Ethics:.
6. The Midwinter Sacrifice: John Milbank (University ofVirginia).
7. Postmodernity and Religious Plurality: Is a Common GlobalEthic Possible or Desirable?: Gavin D'Costa (University ofBristol).
8. The Christian Difference, or Surviving Postmodernism: StanleyHauerwas (Duke University).
9. Justice and Prudence: Principles of Order in the PlatonicCity: Catherine Pickstock (University of Cambridge).
10. Visiting Prisoners: William C. Placher (Wabash College,India).
11. Suffering and Incarnation: Graham Ward (University ofManchester).
12. Earth God: Cultivating the Spirit in an Ecocidal Culture:Mark I. Wallace (Swarthmore College).
Part III: Gender:.
13. An Ethics of Memory: Promising, Forgiving, Yearning: PamelaSue Anderson (Regent's Park College, Oxford).
14. Is Macrina a Woman? Gregory of Nyssa's Dialogue on theSoul and Resurrection: Virginia Burrus (Drew University).
15. "They Will Know We are Christians by Our RegulatedImprovisation": Ecclesial Hybridity and the Unity of the Church:Mary McClintock Fulkerson (Duke University).
16. On Changing the Imaginary: Grace M. Jantzen (University ofManchester).
17. Companionable Wisdoms: What Insights Might FeministTheorists Gather from Feminist Theologians?: Serene Jones (YaleDivinity School).
Part IV: Hermeneutics:.
18. Shattering the Logos: Hermeneutics Between a Hammer and aHard Place: Daniel Boyarin (University of California atBerkeley).
19. The Renewal of Jewish Theology Today: Under the Sign ofThree: Peter Ochs (University of Virginia).
20. Intending Transcendence: Desiring God: Edith Wyschogrod(Rice University).
Part V: Phenomenology:.
21. Transfiguring God: Richard Kearney (University College).
22. Presence and Parousia: Jean-Yves Lacoste.
23. The Formal Reason for the Infinite: Jean-Luc Marion(University of Paris, Sorbonne).
24. Religions as Conventions: Joseph S. O'Leary (SophiaUniversity, Japan).
Part VI: Heideggerians:.
25. The Self-Saving of God: Thomas J. J. Altizer (StateUniversity of New York).
26. The Subject of Prayer: Unwilling Words in the PostmodernAccess to God: Laurence PaulHemming (University of London).
27. The Christian Message and the Dissolution of Metaphysics:Gianni Vattimo (University of Turin).
Part VII: Derrideans:.
28. The Poetics of the Impossible and the Kingdom of God: JohnD. Caputo (Villanova University).
29. Anti-Discrimination: Don Cupitt (Emmanuel College,Cambridge).
30. Is There a Postmodern Gospel?: Walter Lowe (EmoryUniversity).
31. Indian Territory: Postmodernism Under the Sign of the Body:Carl Raschke (University of Denver).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

The Revd Dr Graham Ward is Professor of Contextual Theology in the department for Religions and Theology at the University of Manchester and one of the Directors of the Centre for Religion and Political Culture based there. His books available from Blackwell include The Postmodern God (1997), The Certeau Reader (1999), True Religion (2002), and Christ and Culture (forthcoming).