Polydox Reflections

Polydox Reflections stages a critical dialogue concerning the ethical and theological viability of "polydoxy," a trend in contemporary theology that emphasizes the multiplicity of creation, religious traditions, and divinity itself.

List of contents

Introducing Polydoxy (Mary-Jane Rubenstein)
 
1. History, Theology, Orthodoxy, Polydoxy (Virginia Burrus)
 
2. Tradition on Fire: Polydoxy, Orthodoxy, and Theological Epistemology (Shannon Craigo-Snell)
 
3. Polyhairesis: On Postmodern and Chinese Folds (Clayton Crockett)
 
4. The Logic of Origin and the Paradoxes of Language: A Theological Experiment (Linn Marie Tonstad)
 
5. Receiving the Gift (Graham Ward)
 
6. Writing-Terrors: A Dialectical Lyric (Mark D. Jordan)
 
7. "There is Hope for a Tree": Lament and Hope in Conversation with Polydoxy (Wendy Farley)
 
8. Getting it Right (Laurel C. Schneider)
 
9. "Theology's Multitude: Polydoxy Reviewed and Renewed" (Catherine Keller)
 
Index
 
Notes on contributors

About the author

Mary-Jane Rubenstein is Associate Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University. Her research and teaching are focused in continental philosophy of religion, philosophy and history of science, and gender and sexuality studies. She is the author of Strange Wonder: The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe (2009) and Worlds without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse (2014).
Kathryn Tanner is Frederick Marquand Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale Divinity School. She is the author of Theories of Culture: A New Agenda for Theology (1997) and Economy of Grace (2005), and Christ the Key (2010) among other books.

Summary

Polydox Reflections stages a critical dialogue concerning the ethical and theological viability of "polydoxy," a trend in contemporary theology that emphasizes the multiplicity of creation, religious traditions, and divinity itself.

Product details

• Authors: M Rubenstein, Mary Jane Rubenstein, Mary-Jan Rubenstein, Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Mary-Jane (Wesleyan University Rubenstein, Mary-Jane Tanner Rubenstein, Rubenstein Mary-Jane, Kathryn Tanner
• Assisted by: Mary-Jane Rubenstein (Editor), Kathryn Tanner (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.08.2014
• EAN: 9781118807149
• ISBN: 978-1-118-80714-9
• No. of pages: 156
• Series: Directions in Modern Theology; Directions in Modern Theology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Theologie, Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft, Theology, Religion & Theology, Religion u. Theologie, Comparative & World Religions, Moderne Theologie, Contemporary Theology