Theology and Contemporary Critical Theory

by G. Ward

Overview

Outlining the four fundamental concerns in the study of theology with representation, history, ethics and transcendence, this book examines each of these concerns in the light of contemporary critical theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333790328
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/14/1999
Series:	Studies in Literature and Religion
Edition description:	2nd ed. 2000
Pages:	203
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

GRAHAM WARD is Professor of Contextual Theology and Ethics at the University of Manchester. He is author of Barthes, Derrida and the Language of Theology (1995) and Balthasar at the End of Modernity (199). He has edited The Postmodern God, Radical Orthodoxy and the Certeau Reader.

Table of Contents

1 Theology and representation: introduction; Jacques Derrida; Luce Irigaray; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; Judith Butler; theological implications. 2: Theology and history: introduction; Paul Ricoeur; Hayden White; Michel Foucault; new historicism; theological implications. 3 Theology and ethics: introduction Julia Kristeva; Emmanuel Levinas; Jean Luc Nancy; theological implications 4 Theology and ethics: introduction; Stanley Fish; Jean Francois Lyotard; Cixous; Michel de Certeau; theological implications. Conclusion - theology and the re-enchantment of the world.

Editorial Reviews

'...the uninitiated enquirer will find here lucid and compelling introductions... the book is invaluable. But the initiated specialist will also find much of value, for the implications for theology are wide and far reaching.' - Gavin Hyman,

New Blackfriars

'Graham Ward...in his short, extremely useful and perceptive Theology and Contemporary Critical Theory offers a generous and appreciative reading of fashionable theorists - above all, of Derrida - and the challenge and opportunity they offer to theology.' - Gerard Loughlin, Times Literary Supplement

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