Theology and Contemporary Critical Theory

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Springer, Dec 6, 1999 - Philosophy - 203 pages
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.
 

Contents

Demythologizing 40 94
3
Deism
13
Deleuze Gilles 29 74 110
29
Salvation xix 4 41 45 78
41
Paul Ricoeur
46
Ricoeur and narrative
53
New historicism
66
Theological implications
77
JeanLuc Nancy
105
Theological implications
114
Stanley Fish
127
theological discourse 130 133
130
JeanFrançois Lyotard
133
Hélène Cixous
141
Ebeling Gerhard 78
146
Theological implications
156

Sanders Jack
84
Julia Kristeva
88
Emmanuel Levinas
96
Sayingsaid 1003 118
100
Notes and References
172
Index
195
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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.

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