Christ and Culture

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'.

Autorentext
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).

Zusammenfassung
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'.

Inhalt

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