The Postmodern God A Theological Reader

by Ward, Graham

• ISBN13: 9780631201410
• ISBN10: 0631201416
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-01-06
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Postmodern God introduces students and researchers to contemporary thought and how it could affect tomorrows theology.

Author Biography

The Revd. Dr. Graham Ward currently teaches at The Centre for Religion, Culture and Gender, Manchester University. Prior to this he was Dean at Peterhouse, Cambridge University.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction or, A Guide to Theological Thinking in Cyberspace: Graham Ward

Selected Texts

Georges Bataille (1897-1962)

Introduction

Bataille Text

From Theory of Religion

(University of Cambridge)

Jacques Lacan (1901-1981)

Introduction

Text: The Death of God

(Rutgers University and New Brunswick Theological Seminary)

Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995)

Introduction

Text: God and Philosophy

(University of Toronto)

Roland Barthes (1915-1980)

Introduction

Text: Wrestling with the Angel

Textual Analysis of Genesis 32

(Oxford University)

Reneacute; Girard (b.1923)

Introduction

Text: The God of Victims

(University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne)

Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

Introduction

Text: From The History of Sexuality

(Both Duke Divinity School, North Carolina USA)

Michel de Certeau (1925-1986)

Introduction

Text : How is Christianity Thinkable Today? and White Ecstasy

(Loyola University, Baltimore USA)

Jacques Derrida (b.1930)

Introduction

Text: From How to Avoid Speaking

(Monash University)

Luce Irigaray (b.1930)

Introduction

Text: Equal to Whom?

(University of Manchester)

Julie Kristeva (b.1941)

Introduction

Text: From In the Beginning was Love

(University of Sunderland)

Selected Essays

From Patriarchy into Freedom

A Conversation between American Feminist Theology and French Feminism

(Emory University, Georgis USA)

Liturgy and Kenosis, from Expeacute;rience et Absolu

Postmodern Critial Augustinianism

A Short Summa in Forth-two Responses to Unasked Questions

(Peterhouse, Cambridge)

Metaphysics and Phenomenology

A Summary for Theologians

(University of Paris X Nanterre)

Asyndeton

Syntax and Insanity

A Study of the Revision of Nicene Creed

(Emmanuel College, Cambridge)

New Jerusalem, Old Athens, from The Broken Middle

(late of the University of Warwick)

Saintliness and Some Aporias of Postmodernism, from Saints and Postmodernism

(Queens College, City University of New York)

Index

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