Secular Theology: American Radical Theological Thought

✍ Scribed by Clayton Crockett (editor)

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Leaves: 262
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Secular Theology brings together new writings by some of America's most influential theological and religious thinkers on the viability of secular theology. Critically assessing Radical Orthodoxy and putting American radical theology in context, it provides new resources for philosophical theology.
Themes covered include postmodern theology, ethics, psychoanalysis, the death of God and medieval theology.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover Page
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents Page
Notes on contributors Page
Acknowledgements Page
Introduction
1 Theology and the secular
2 Postmodern secular theology
3 À-Dieu to Jacques Derrida: Descartes’ ghost, or the Holy Spirit in secular theology
4 Anxiety, risk and transformation: re-visiting Tillich with Lacan
5 Love and law: John Milbank and Hermann Cohen on the ethical possibilities of secular society
6 On Whitehead’s proposition “Life is robbery”: prolegomena to any future ethics
7 Saying Kaddish for Gillian Rose, or on Levinas and Geltungsphilosophie
8 The gift of prayer
9 And maker mates with made: world and self-creation in Eriugena and Joyce
10 Kenotic existence and the aesthetics of grace
11 Theography: signs of God in a postmodern age
12 Contact epistemology for the sites of theology
13 Malformed essence, misplaced concreteness and the law of the indifferent middle
14 God is of (possibility)
Index of names

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