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Outlining the four fundamental concerns in the study of theology with representation, history, ethics and transcendence, this book examines each of these concerns in the light of contemporary critical theory.
List of contents
1 Theology and representation: introduction; Jacques Derrida; Luce Irigaray; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; Judith Butler; theological implications. 2: Theology and history: introduction; Paul Ricoeur; Hayden White; Michel Foucault; new historicism; theological implications. 3 Theology and ethics: introduction Julia Kristeva; Emmanuel Levinas; Jean Luc Nancy; theological implications 4 Theology and ethics: introduction; Stanley Fish; Jean Francois Lyotard; Cixous; Michel de Certeau; theological implications. Conclusion - theology and the re-enchantment of the world.
About the author
GRAHAM WARD is Professor of Contextual Theology and Ethics at the University of Manchester. He is author of
Barthes, Derrida and the Language of Theology (1995) and
Balthasar at the End of Modernity (199). He has edited
The Postmodern God, Radical Orthodoxy and the
Certeau Reader.
Summary
Outlining the four fundamental concerns in the study of theology with representation, history, ethics and transcendence, this book examines each of these concerns in the light of contemporary critical theory.
Report
'...the uninitiated enquirer will find here lucid and compelling introductions... the book is invaluable. But the initiated specialist will also find much of value, for the implications for theology are wide and far reaching.' - Gavin Hyman,
New Blackfriars
'Graham Ward...in his short, extremely useful and perceptive Theology and Contemporary Critical Theory offers a generous and appreciative reading of fashionable theorists - above all, of Derrida - and the challenge and opportunity they offer to theology.' - Gerard Loughlin, Times Literary Supplement
