The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern TheologyKevin J. Vanhoozer Postmodernity allows for no absolutes and no essence. Yet theology is concerned with the absolute, the essential. How then does theology sit within postmodernity? Is postmodern theology possible, or is such a concept a contradiction in terms? Should theology bother about postmodernism or just get on with its own thing? Can it? |
Contents
Theology and the condition of postmodernity a report on knowledge of God | 3 |
AngloAmerican postmodernity a theology of communal practice | 26 |
Postliberal theology | 42 |
Postmetaphysical theology | 58 |
Deconstructive theology | 76 |
Reconstructive theology | 92 |
Feminist theology | 109 |
Radical orthodoxy | 126 |
Theological method | 170 |
The Trinity | 186 |
God and world | 203 |
The human person | 219 |
Christ and salvation | 235 |
Ecclesiology | 252 |
Holy Spirit and Christian spirituality | 269 |
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