Theology After Postmodernity

Theology After Postmodernity
Author: Tina Beattie
Publisher:
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2013-10-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199566070

Engaging the theology of Thomas Aquinas with the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan, Tina Beattie shows how Thomism exerted a formative influence on Lacan, and how a Lacanian approach can bring new insights to Thomas's theology. Lacan makes possible a renewed Thomism which offers a rich theology of creation, incarnation, and redemption.

The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology

The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology
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.

Theology after Postmodernity

Theology after Postmodernity
Author: Tina Beattie
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2013-10-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0191611832

Theology after Postmodernity is a ground-breaking study that has the capacity to transform the relationship between psychoanalytic theory and Christian theology. Reading the theology of Thomas Aquinas in close engagement with the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan, Tina Beattie shows how Thomism exerted a formative influence on Lacan, and she also shows how a Lacanian approach can bring rich new insights to Thomas's theology. A growing number of English-speaking scholars now recognize the extent to which twentieth century French theorists and philosophers were influenced by medieval theology, and there have been several studies of Jacques Lacan's Thomism. However, this is the first study published in English to bring a Lacanian feminist perspective to bear on the theology of Thomas Aquinas. Focusing on the centrality of desire in Thomas's theology and Lacan's psychoanalytic theory, Beattie follows Lacan along an overgrown and often hidden path through the changing configurations of desire, gender, and knowledge from their Aristotelian formation in the medieval universities to their fragmentation in the collapse of modernity's visions and values. Beattie offers a penetrating critique of Thomas's Aristotelianism, but she also excavates the mystical treasures within his theology. This enables her to show how Thomas's God remains an unconscious but potent influence in the shaping of modern western thought, and to ask what transformations might be needed in order to bring about a Thomism for our times. Probing beneath the surface of Thomas's Summa Theologiae and other writings, she brings to light the Other of Thomas's One God - an incarnate, maternal Trinity who emerges when Thomas's Aristotelian ontotheology is suspended and the more neglected aspects of his doctrinal and theological insights are allowed to emerge. Lacan makes possible a renewed Thomism which offers a rich theology of creation, incarnation, and redemption capable of responding to some of the most urgent and far-reaching challenges that questions of gender, nature, and God pose to Christian theological language in its classical and postmodern formations.

Postmodernity

Postmodernity
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.

Postmodern Christianity

Postmodern Christianity
Author: John W. Riggs
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2003-04-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567240096

John Riggs argues for a common ground between postmodernism and Christianity, focusing on how this applies to issues such as reproductive rights and the ordination of women, gay men, and lesbians, and suggest that Christianity avoid the extreme positions of either completely accommodating itself to or completely rejecting postmodern culture.

Desiring Theology

Desiring Theology
Author: Charles E. Winquist
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 179
Release: 1995
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0226902137

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Christianity and the Postmodern Turn

Christianity and the Postmodern Turn
Author: Myron B. Penner
Publisher: Brazos Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2005-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1587431084

Addresses the promises and perils of postmodernity for the church today.

The Postmodern Life Cycle

The Postmodern Life Cycle
Author: Friedrich Schweitzer
Publisher: Chalice Press
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2012-11
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780827230637

A theology in tune with postcolonial theory has the potential to creatively inform and transform ecclesial practice. Focusing on the relation of theology to postcolonial theory, Postcolonial Theologies brings together a wide diversity of authors, many of them fresh and exciting theological voices, in essays that are stunningly creative and prophetically lucid. All essays are theologically constructive, not merely deconstructive or critical, in their visions for Christianity. Forming a sort of doctrinal landscape, they emerge under the themes of theological anthropology shaped by ethnicity, class, and privilege; a Christology that intersects the claims of Christ and empire; and a Cosmology that imagines a postcolonial world.

Postmodern Philosophy and Christian Thought

Postmodern Philosophy and Christian Thought
Author: Merold Westphal
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 1999-11-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780253213365

Are postmodern philosophy and Christian thought so diametrically opposed that "never the twain shall meet"? Or are various postmodern philosophies, in spite of their secular provenance, open to religious appropriation? These thirteen lively, original essays awaken secular postmodernisms and various modes of Christian thinking from their ideological complacency. An open space for passionate dialogue emerges from conversations that powerfully engage both intellectual and religious points of view.