Theology And Literature After Postmodernity
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Author | : Zoë Lehmann Imfeld |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2015-03-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0567654958 |
This volume deploys theology in a reconstructive approach to contemporary literary criticism, to validate and exemplify theological readings of literary texts as a creative exercise. It engages in a dialogue with interdisciplinary approaches to literature in which theology is alert and responsive to the challenges following postmodernism and postmodern literary criticism. It demonstrates the scope and explanatory power of theological readings across various texts and literary genres. Theology and Literature after Postmodernity explores a reconstructive approach to reading and literary study in the university setting, with contributions from interdisciplinary scholars worldwide.
Author | : Kevin J. Vanhoozer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2003-07-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521793957 |
This introductory 2003 guide offers examples of different types of contemporary theology and Christian doctrine in relationship to postmodernity.
Author | : Anthony Paul Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Continental philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781443827041 |
Continental philosophy of religion has been dominated for two decades by 'postsecular' and 'postmodern' thought. This title questions what comes after the postsecular and the postmodern. It argues that philosophy of religion must either liberate itself from theological norms or mutate into a different practice of thinking.
Author | : Paul Lakeland |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781451416305 |
More than a guidebook to the postmodernity debate, Paul Lakeland's lively and novel volume clarifies the critical impulses behind the cultural, intellectual, and scientific expressions of postmodern thought. He identifies the issues it presents for religion and for Christian theology. Concentrating on God, Church, and Christ, Lakeland outlines the church's mission to the postmodern world, including a constructive theological apologetics.
Author | : Amy Hungerford |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2010-07-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1400834910 |
How can intense religious beliefs coexist with pluralism in America today? Examining the role of the religious imagination in contemporary religious practice and in some of the best-known works of American literature from the past fifty years, Postmodern Belief shows how belief for its own sake--a belief absent of doctrine--has become an answer to pluralism in a secular age. Amy Hungerford reveals how imaginative literature and religious practices together allow novelists, poets, and critics to express the formal elements of language in transcendent terms, conferring upon words a religious value independent of meaning. Hungerford explores the work of major American writers, including Allen Ginsberg, Don DeLillo, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and Marilynne Robinson, and links their unique visions to the religious worlds they touch. She illustrates how Ginsberg's chant-infused 1960s poetry echoes the tongue-speaking of Charismatic Christians, how DeLillo reimagines the novel and the Latin Mass, why McCarthy's prose imitates the Bible, and why Morrison's fiction needs the supernatural. Uncovering how literature and religion conceive of a world where religious belief can escape confrontations with other worldviews, Hungerford corrects recent efforts to discard the importance of belief in understanding religious life, and argues that belief in belief itself can transform secular reading and writing into a religious act. Honoring the ways in which people talk about and practice religion, Postmodern Belief highlights the claims of the religious imagination in twentieth-century American culture.
Author | : Graham Ward |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0470998342 |
This Companion provides a definitive collection of essays on postmodern theology, drawing on the work of those individuals who have made a distinctive contribution to the field, and whose work will be significant for the theologies written in the new millennium. The definitive collection of essays on postmodern theology, drawing on the work of those individuals who have made a distinctive contribution to the field. Each essay is introduced with a short account of the writer's previous work, enabling the reader to view it in context. Discusses the following desciplines: Aesthetics, Ethics, Gender, Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, Heideggerians, and Derrideans. Edited by Graham Ward, one of the most outstanding and original theologians working in the field today.
Author | : Deborah C. Bowen |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Postmodern theology |
ISBN | : 9781847181619 |
Contemporary Christian critique often talks about postmodernism apocalyptically, in terms of cultural crisis and decline; instead, the contributors to this volume believe that there is a new place for Christian entrÃ(c)es on the academic Smorgasbord of postmodernity, and they see the postmodern turn as an opportunity for fresh perspectives on the spiritual dimensions of reading literature. These twenty scholars are an eclectic group, differing in theological and theoretical commitments, but all identifying as Christian. In this collection they enter into dialogue with a wide range of contemporary literary theorists and theoretical perspectives, and offer new readings of primary texts informed by both these theoretical constructs and their Christian faith. The manuscript strikes out in important new directions in its sympathetic reading of postmodern theory from a Christian perspective, and, even more significantly, in its careful and measured dialogic approach to the relationship of Christian thought and contemporary literary theory. Daniel Coleman, Canada Research Chair in Critical Ethnicity and Race Studies, Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University Too often Christian literary critics and theologians have preemptively dismissed postmodern theory, even as secular critics have been equally dismissive about the contributions that the Christian faith tradition makes to the study of literature. This volume successfully brings these two worlds together in innovative, at times challenging, and always rich ways. I do not know of a similar volume in existence, a work that gathers in one convenient publication a wide-ranging set of discussions of contemporary literary theory by Christian scholars. The editor has gathered an impressive and important set of papers here, and I believe the volume will raise much interest and provoke a good deal of constructive debate. Susan VanZanten Gallagher, Professor of English, Director, Center for Scholarship and Faculty Development, Seattle Pacific University
Author | : Gavin Hyman |
Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780664223663 |
Gavin Hyman explores in depth two antithetical schools of postmodern theology--the "radical orthodoxy" of John Milbank and the "nihilist textualism" of Don Cupitt. Hyman critiques Milbank's influential project from a postmodern perspective, and then points out the major difficulties with Cupitt's approach. Finally, he explores the work of Mark C. Taylor and Michael de Certeau to articulate a "third way" that leads beyond the responses of both Cupitt and Milbank.
Author | : Victor E. Taylor |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2008-02-20 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 113465894X |
Para/Inquiry represents the next generation of postmodern studies. Focusing on cultural studies religion, and literature, Victor E. Taylor provides us with a fresh look at the history and main themes of postmodernism, both in style and content. Central to the book is the status of the sacred in postmodern times. Taylor explores the sacred images in art, culture and literature. We see that the concept of the sacred is uniquely singular and resistant to an easy assimilation into artistic, cultural or narrative forms. Anyone wishing to gain a new and exciting understanding of postmodernism, will read this book with great pleasure.
Author | : Eleanor Beal |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2019-07-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1786834413 |
Horror and Religion provides new readings of contemporary horror fiction in conjuncture with debates in religious studies and theology. It gives a broad analysis of a wide range of contemporary and historical horror texts in a new interdisciplinary way. This study establishes the importance of discussing theology and contemporary horror fiction in present scholarship.