The Blackwell Companion to Postmodern Theology (Blackwell Companions to Religion)

List of Contributors......Page 10
Introduction: “Where We Stand”......Page 12
PART I: Aesthetics......Page 29
CHAPTER 1 Postmodern Theology as Cultural Analysis......Page 31
CHAPTER 2 The Man Who Fell to Earth......Page 52
CHAPTER 3 Communion and Conversation......Page 76
CHAPTER 4 The Ends of Man and the Future of God......Page 96
CHAPTER 5 “Lush Life”: Foucault’s Analytics of Power and a Jazz Aesthetic......Page 107
PART II: Ethics......Page 133
CHAPTER 6 The Midwinter Sacrifice......Page 135
CHAPTER 7 Postmodernity and Religious Plurality: Is a Common Global Ethic Possible or Desirable?......Page 159
CHAPTER 8 The Christian Difference, or Surviving Postmodernism......Page 172
CHAPTER 9 Justice and Prudence: Principles of Order in the Platonic City......Page 190
CHAPTER 10 Visiting Prisoners......Page 205
CHAPTER 11 Suffering and Incarnation......Page 220
CHAPTER 12 Earth God: Cultivating the Spirit in an Ecocidal Culture......Page 237
PART III: Gender......Page 257
CHAPTER 13 An Ethics of Memory: Promising, Forgiving, Yearning......Page 259
CHAPTER 14 Is Macrina a Woman? Gregory of Nyssa’s Dialogue on the Soul and Resurrection......Page 277
CHAPTER 15 “They Will Know We are Christians by Our Regulated Improvisation”: Ecclesial Hybridity and the Unity of the Church......Page 293
CHAPTER 16 On Changing the Imaginary......Page 308
CHAPTER 17 Companionable Wisdoms: What Insights Might Feminist Theorists Gather from Feminist Theologians?......Page 322
PART IV: Hermeneutics......Page 337
CHAPTER 18 Shattering the Logos: Hermeneutics Between a Hammer and a Hard Place......Page 339
CHAPTER 19 The Renewal of Jewish Theology Today: Under the Sign of Three......Page 352
CHAPTER 20 Intending Transcendence: Desiring God......Page 377
PART V: Phenomenology......Page 395
CHAPTER 21 Transfiguring God......Page 397
CHAPTER 22 Presence and Parousia......Page 422
CHAPTER 23 The Formal Reason for the Infinite......Page 427
CHAPTER 24 Religions as Conventions......Page 441
PART VI: Heideggerians......Page 453
CHAPTER 25 The Self-Saving of God......Page 455
CHAPTER 26 The Subject of Prayer: Unwilling Words in the Postmodern Access to God......Page 472
CHAPTER 27 The Christian Message and the Dissolution of Metaphysics......Page 486
PART VII: Derrideans......Page 495
CHAPTER 28 The Poetics of the Impossible and the Kingdom of God......Page 497
CHAPTER 29 Anti-Discrimination......Page 510
CHAPTER 30 Is There a Postmodern Gospel?......Page 518
CHAPTER 31 Indian Territory: Postmodernism Under the Sign of the Body......Page 533
Index......Page 545