This Companion provides a definitive collection of essays on
postmodern theology, drawing on the work of those individuals who
have made a distinctive contribution to the field, and whose work
will be significant for the theologies written in the new
millennium.
* * The definitive collection of essays on postmodern theology,
drawing on the work of those individuals who have made a
distinctive contribution to the field.
* Each essay is introduced with a short account of the writer’s
previous work, enabling the reader to view it in context.
* Discusses the following desciplines: Aesthetics, Ethics,
Gender, Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, Heideggerians, and
Derrideans.
* Edited by Graham Ward, one of the most outstanding and original
theologians working in the field today.
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List of Contributors.
Introduction: ‘Where We Stand’.
Part I: Aesthetics:.
1. Postmodern Theology as Cultural Analysis: Mieke Bal.
2. The Man Who Fell to Earth: Gerard Loughlin (University of
Newcastle upon Tyne).
3. Communion and Conversation: Regina Schwartz (Northwestern
University).
4. The Ends of Man and the Future of God: Janet Martin Soskice
(University of Cambridge).
5. ‘Lush Life’: Foucault’s Analytics of Power and a Jazz
Aesthetic: Sharon D. Welch (University of Missouri).
Part II: Ethics:.
6. The Midwinter Sacrifice: John Milbank (University of
Virginia).
7. Postmodernity and Religious Plurality: Is a Common Global
Ethic Possible or Desirable?: Gavin D’Costa (University of
Bristol).
8. The Christian Difference, or Surviving Postmodernism: Stanley
Hauerwas (Duke University).
9. Justice and Prudence: Principles of Order in the Platonic
City: Catherine Pickstock (University of Cambridge).
10. Visiting Prisoners: William C. Placher (Wabash College,
India).
11. Suffering and Incarnation: Graham Ward (University of
Manchester).
12. Earth God: Cultivating the Spirit in an Ecocidal Culture:
Mark I. Wallace (Swarthmore College).
Part III: Gender:.
13. An Ethics of Memory: Promising, Forgiving, Yearning: Pamela
Sue Anderson (Regent’s Park College, Oxford).
14. Is Macrina a Woman? Gregory of Nyssa’s Dialogue on the
Soul and Resurrection: Virginia Burrus (Drew University).
15. ‘They Will Know We are Christians by Our Regulated
Improvisation’: Ecclesial Hybridity and the Unity of the Church:
Mary Mc Clintock Fulkerson (Duke University).
16. On Changing the Imaginary: Grace M. Jantzen (University of
Manchester).
17. Companionable Wisdoms: What Insights Might Feminist
Theorists Gather from Feminist Theologians?: Serene Jones (Yale
Divinity School).
Part IV: Hermeneutics:.
18. Shattering the Logos: Hermeneutics Between a Hammer and a
Hard Place: Daniel Boyarin (University of California at
Berkeley).
19. The Renewal of Jewish Theology Today: Under the Sign of
Three: Peter Ochs (University of Virginia).
20. Intending Transcendence: Desiring God: Edith Wyschogrod
(Rice University).
Part V: Phenomenology:.
21. Transfiguring God: Richard Kearney (University College).
22. Presence and Parousia: Jean-Yves Lacoste.
23. The Formal Reason for the Infinite: Jean-Luc Marion
(University of Paris, Sorbonne).
24. Religions as Conventions: Joseph S. O’Leary (Sophia
University, Japan).
Part VI: Heideggerians:.
25. The Self-Saving of God: Thomas J. J. Altizer (State
University of New York).
26. The Subject of Prayer: Unwilling Words in the Postmodern
Access to God: Laurence Paul Hemming (University of London).
27. The Christian Message and the Dissolution of Metaphysics:
Gianni Vattimo (University of Turin).
Part VII: Derrideans:.
28. The Poetics of the Impossible and the Kingdom of God: John
D. Caputo (Villanova University).
29. Anti-Discrimination: Don Cupitt (Emmanuel College,
Cambridge).
30. Is There a Postmodern Gospel?: Walter Lowe (Emory
University).
31. Indian Territory: Postmodernism Under the Sign of the Body:
Carl Raschke (University of Denver).
Index.
Over de auteur
The Revd Dr Graham Ward is Professor of Contextual Theology in the department for Religions and Theology at the University of Manchester and one of the Directors of the Centre for Religion and Political Culture based there. His books available from Blackwell include The Postmodern God (1997), The Certeau Reader (1999), True Religion (2002), and Christ and Culture (forthcoming).