The Blackwell Companion to Postmodern Theology
Edited by
Graham Ward
University of Manchester jjk Blackwell
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"Connecting theology to a variety of disciplines and intellectual traditions, this companion provides an exciting sample of the current work of postmodern theologians. Many of the essays are ground-breaking, as the fields of theology and religious thought move forward into the next century. This is a valuable sequel to Ward's The Postmodern God!"
Robert Gibbs, University of Toronto
"If you think you know what postmodern theology is, or think you don't know, either way these remarkable essays will change your mind: written by Jews, Christians and atheists; indebted to Plato, the Bible and Augustine; haunted by Heidegger, Levinas, Foucault and Derrida; dealing with jazz, the Shoah, the ecological crisis, the American prison system and many other topics; some long and patient, others short and cryptic, all asking to be read more than once; . . . You may still not know at the end but you will certainly have seen the variety and vitality of what theologians are doing, in these postmodern times, and the zest with which they do it."
Fergus Kerr O.P., Regent of Blackfriars, Oxford
"Among the delights of this collection are the essays that dare to reconsider some of the 'bad guys' in the official postmodern story: thus Catherine Pickstock endeavours of rescue Plato from his Nietzschean decriers by rereading the Republic through the Laws to offer an account of Plato's politics as liturgical rather than totalitarian; while Jean-Luc Marion even seeks to learn from the much-despised Descartes."
Literature & Theology
"[A] useful and exciting volume, bringing together the work of religious scholars and theologians across a wide spectrum, creating space for their current work independently from a given theme, showing them sometimes in agreement, sometimes in heated argument with each other."
Anglican Theological Review
Blackwell Companions to Religion
The Blackwell Companions to Religion series presents a collection of the most recent scholarship and knowledge about world religions. Each volume draws together newly-commissioned essays by distinguished authors in the field, and is presented in a style which is accessible to undergraduate students, as well as scholars and the interested general reader. These volumes approach the subject in a creative and forward-thinking style, providing a forum in which leading scholars in the field can make their views and research available to a wider audience.
Published
The Blackwell Companion to Judaism
Edited by Jacob Neusner and Alan J. Avery-Peck
The Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Religion Edited by Richard K. Fenn
The Blackwell Companion to the Hebrew Bible Edited by Leo G. Perdue
The Blackwell Companion to Postmodern Theology Edited by Graham Ward
The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism Edited by Gavin Flood
The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology Edited by Peter Scott and William T. Cavanaugh
The Blackwell Companion to Protestantism Edited by Alister E. McGrath and Darren C. Marks
The Blackwell Companion to Modern Theology Edited by Gareth Jones
The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics Edited by Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells
The Blackwell Companion to Religious Ethics Edited by William Schweiker
Forthcoming
The Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion Edited by Robert A. Segal
The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity Edited by Ken Parry
The Blackwell Companion to Christian Spirituality Edited by Arthur Holder
The Blackwell Companion to the Bible and Culture Edited by John Sawyer and Paul Fletcher
The Blackwell Companion to the New Testament Edited by David Aune
The Blackwell Companion to Comtemporary Islamic Thought Edited by Ibrahim Abu-Rabi
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Editorial matter and arrangement © 2001, 2005 by Graham Ward
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