Graham Ward examines the core skills, approaches and concepts employed in the study of theology and relates them to the work of relevant critical theorists. Distinguishing theology's concern with representation, history, ethics and the experience of transcendence, the book then reviews the work of two or three particular postmodern thinkers whose ideas challenge the traditional ways theology has handled these concerns. The book suggests the way in which the study of theology may be transformed through a developed engagement with contemporary critical theory.

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University of Manchester, UK

Graham Ward

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Graham Ward is Professor in Contextual Theology and Ethics at the University of Manchester

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Book Title: Theology and Contemporary Critical Theory
Authors: Graham Ward
Series Title: Studies in Literature and Religion
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230378957
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-61009-1Due: 06 September 1996
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37895-7Published: 06 September 1996
Series ISSN: 2946-8744
Series E-ISSN: 2946-8752
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 203
Topics: Critical Theory, Literature, general, Religious Studies, general

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

Front Matter

Theology and Representation

Theology and History

Theology and Ethics

Theology and Aesthetics: Religious Experience and the Textual Sublime

Conclusion: Theology and the Re-enchantment of the World

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