Graham Ward

Christ and Culture (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Leading theologian Graham Ward presents a stimulating series of reflections on Christ and contemporary culture.

• Takes as its starting point Niebuhr's famous volume on 'Christ and Culture' published in the 1970s
• Explores representations of Christ from sources as diverse as the New Testament and twentieth-century continental philosophy
• Considers Christ and culture in the light of contemporary categories such as the body, gender, desire, politics and the sublime
• Develops an original and imaginative Christology rooted in Scriptural exegesis and concerned with today's cultural issues
• The author has been described as 'the most visionary theologian of his generation'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470777244
• Artikelnr.: 38197501

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

In this book Graham Ward lifts debates about Christ and culture toan unprecedented level of sophistication and at the same timedecisively moves them away from a theologically liberal ambiencetowards one that is genuinely orthodox and Catholic, but in a new,critical and unavoidably controversial mode. He most significantlyadvances our ability to tackle the question of what should be theChristian stance in the face of advanced modernity. JohnMilbank, University of Nottingham

Graham Ward has always written insightful and arrestingtheology, but in this book he exposits scripture, retrievestradition and interrogates culture with a yet more brilliant andsurer touch than ever before. His concern is with the culturalmediation of the Mediator, Jesus Christ, who, in the endlessdisplacements of his body, is not so much an identity to be knownas an operation, a movement, in which to participate. This book isabout the 'first born' of creation, the one by, for andin whom we live, the 'culture' by which we are given tobe. Ward's transcorporeal Christology challenges our secularcertainties and finds for us the promise of the transcendent in thetextual--and indeed sexual--negotiations of our alwaysencultured bodies. This is wonderfully mesmeric, bravura theology.Gerard Loughlin, University of Durham

"New book attempts to break out of the Christian insularity toproduce a genuinely public theology of significant interest topostmodern philosophers and social theorists."
Modern Theology