<p>In this analysis of theological conflict, Wesley Kort treats theologies as discourses that generate power and significance by their relations to and differences from one another. He identifies the traditional or putative claims of theological power and meaningβsources, referents, and patterns or
Theology and Difference: The Wound of Reason
β Scribed by Walter James Lowe
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 235
- Series
- Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Theology and Difference reconceives the options confronting modern theology and investigates the disputed questions that underlie it. Pressing beyond the ready-made enlightenment offered by the subject-object framework, Walter Lowe uncovers a number of remarkable convergences between the contemporary philosopher Jacques Derrida and the early twentieth-century theologian Karl Barth.
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