Interpreting the Postmodern Responses to "Radical Orthodoxy"

by Ruether, Rosemary Radford; Grau, Marion

• ISBN13: 9780567028907
• ISBN10: 0567028909
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-19
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

Modernity and postmodernity are intensely contested interpretive spaces. In a time, or mood, that many in the industrialized world consider to be "postmodern," what should the contribution of Christian theology be? What are its chances, its challenges, its hopes and limits? This volume represents a collection of approaches by various authors whose work engages the contemporary theological space--modern, postmodern, and otherwise--in ways that are in critical conversation with "radical orthodoxy," but suggesting alternative approaches and readings. The authors in this volume respond to "radical orthodoxy's" controversial claims about postmodern space in ways that aim to acknowledge the importance of the questions and critiques raised by Milbank, Pickstock, Ward, and others, but that proposes different responses to issue crucial to contemporary theological discourse such as: the difficulty to engage the powerful critiques offered by radical orthodoxy, while resisting the totality of vision and approach, the struggle for justice against poverty and predatory capitalism, theologies of incarnation, theological gender constructions, participation and presence in the eucharistic liturgy, narrative legitimacy through periodization, the radical nature of ethnic and cultural Otherness, reciprocity and redemption, immanence and transcendence, feminist philosophy of religion, a Jewish feminist re-enchantment of the world, theological eurocentrism, theologies of gift and economic exchange, and constructive theology.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
PART I. INTERPRETING BODIES
1. Charitable Interpretation	3	(15)
John F. Hoffmeyer
2. Is That All?: Gift and Reciprocity in Milbank's Being Reconciled	18	(18)
Catherine Keller
3. Radical Orthodoxy and the Heresiological Habit: Engaging Graham Ward's Christology	36	(21)
Virginia Burrus
PART II. CONSIDERING LIBERATION THEOLOGIES
4. Radical Eurocentrism: The Crisis and Death of Latin American Liberation Theology and Recipes for Its Improvement	57	(19)
Elina Vuola
5. The Postmodern as Premodern: The Theology of D. Stephen Long	76	(15)
Rosemary Radford Ruether
6. "That's Not Fair": Upside-Down Justice in the Midst of Empire	91	(16)
Joerg Rieger
7. "A Saint and a Church for Twenty Dollars": Sending Radical Orthodoxy to Ayacucho	107	(12)
Marcella Maria Althaus-Reid
8. Radical Transcendence?: Divine and Human Otherness in Radical Orthodoxy and Liberation Theology	119	(22)
Mayra Rivera Rivera
PART III. THEOLOGY, ECONOMICS, AND POLITICS
9. "We Must Give Ourselves to Voyaging": Regifting the Theological Present	141	(20)
Marion Grau
10. Embodying and Emboldening Our Desires	161	(14)
Lisa Isherwood
11. "My Yearning Is for Justice": Moving Beyond Praxis in Feminist Theology	175	(22)
Mary Grey
PART IV. PUSHING THE MARGINS OF RADICAL ORTHODOXY
12. Standing at a Demythologized Sinai?: Reading Jewish Feminist Theology through the Critical Lens of Radical Orthodoxy	197	(18)
Melissa Raphael
13. Radical Orthodoxy and Feminist Philosophy of Religion	215	(16)
Beverley Clack
Contributors	231	(2)
Index	233