Outlining the four fundamental concerns in the study of theology with representation, history, ethics and transcendence, this book examines each of these concerns in the light of contemporary critical theory.

Autorentext

GRAHAM WARD is Professor of Contextual Theology and Ethics at the University of Manchester. He is author of Barthes, Derrida and the Language of Theology (1995) and Balthasar at the End of Modernity (199). He has edited The Postmodern God, Radical Orthodoxy and the Certeau Reader.

Inhalt
1 Theology and representation: introduction; Jacques Derrida; Luce Irigaray; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; Judith Butler; theological implications. 2: Theology and history: introduction; Paul Ricoeur; Hayden White; Michel Foucault; new historicism; theological implications. 3 Theology and ethics: introduction Julia Kristeva; Emmanuel Levinas; Jean Luc Nancy; theological implications 4 Theology and ethics: introduction; Stanley Fish; Jean Francois Lyotard; Cixous; Michel de Certeau; theological implications. Conclusion - theology and the re-enchantment of the world.