Graham Ward 
Christ and Culture [PDF ebook] 

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

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).