Leading theologian Graham Ward presents a stimulating series of reflections on Christ and contemporary culture.
- Takes as its starting point Niebuhr’s famous volume on ‘Christ and Culture’ published in the 1970s
- Explores representations of Christ from sources as diverse as the New Testament and twentieth-century continental philosophy
- Considers Christ and culture in the light of contemporary categories such as the body, gender, desire, politics and the sublime
- Develops an original and imaginative Christology rooted in Scriptural exegesis and concerned with today’s cultural issues
- The author has been described as ‘the most visionary theologian of his generation’.
Table of Content
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
Part One THE ECONOMY OF RESPONSE 27
1 Christology and Mimesis 29
2 The Schizoid Christ 60
3 The Body of the Church and its Erotic Politics 92
Part Two ENGENDERING CHRIST 111
4 Redemption: Between Reception and Response 113
5 Divinity and Sexual Difference 129
6 The Politics of Christ’s Circumcision (and the Mystery of all Flesh) 159
Part Three THE LIVING CHRIST: ECONOMIES OF REDEMPTION 181
7 Allegoria Amoris: A Christian Ethics 183
8 Spiritual Exercises: A Christian Pedagogy 219
9 Suffering and Incarnation: A Christian Politics 248
Index 267
About the author
Graham Ward is Professor of Contextual Theology and Ethics at the University of Manchester. His previous books include Barth, Derrida and the Language of Theology (1995), Theology and Contemporary Critical Theory (1996), The Postmodern God (Blackwell, 1997), Radical Orthodoxy (1998), The Certeau Reader (Blackwell, 1999), Cities of God (2000), The Blackwell Companion to Postmodern Theology (Blackwell, 2001), True Religion (Blackwell, 2002) and Cultural Transformation and Religious Practice (2004).
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