Postmodern Theory and Biblical Theology
Title | Postmodern Theory and Biblical Theology PDF eBook |
Author | Brian D. Ingraffia |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 308 |
Release | 1995-12-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521568401 |
This book explores the relationship between postmodernism and Christianity. Whereas deconstructionists claim all religious discourses can be radically undermined, Ingraffia argues that the version of Christianity constructed by Nietzsche, Heidegger and especially Derrida ignores Christianity's unique ontological status. This truth, Ingraffia claims, is an unacknowledged influence on leading postmodernist thinkers, thereby demonstrating the priority of the Judaeo-Christian tradition over secular attempts to displace it.
Critical Entanglements: Postmodern Theory and Biblical Studies
Title | Critical Entanglements: Postmodern Theory and Biblical Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew P. Wilson |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 74 |
Release | 2019-11-26 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004424059 |
In Critical Entanglements: Postmodern Theory and Biblical Studies, Andrew P. Wilson tracks the various strands of postmodernism threaded through the discipline, drawing on a range of evocative biblical readings as well as key examples from the art world.
The Postmodern Bible
Title | The Postmodern Bible PDF eBook |
Author | George Aichele |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 418 |
Release | 1995-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780300068184 |
The burgeoning use of modern literary theory and cultural criticism in recent biblical studies has led to stimulating--but often bewildering--new readings of the Bible. This book, argued from a perspective shaped by postmodernism, is at once an accessible guide to and an engagement with various methods, theories, and critical practices transforming biblical scholarship today. Written by a collective of cutting-edge scholars--with each page the work of multiple hands--The Postmodern Bible deliberately breaks with the individualist model of authorship that has traditionally dominated scholarship in the humanities and is itself an illustration of the postmodern transformation of biblical studies for which it argues. The book introduces, illustrates, and critiques seven prominent strategies of reading. Several of these interpretive strategies--rhetorical criticism, structuralism and narratology, reader-response criticism, and feminist criticism--have been instrumental in the transformation of biblical studies up to now. Many--feminist and womanist criticism, ideological criticism, poststructuralism, and psychoanalytic criticism--hold promise for the continued transformation of these studies in the future. Focusing on readings from both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, this volume illuminates the current multidisciplinary debates emerging from postmodernism by exposing the still highly contested epistemological, political, and ethical positions in the field of biblical studies.
The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin J. Vanhoozer |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 534 |
Release | 2003-07-31 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1139826409 |
Postmodernity allows for no absolutes and no essence. Yet theology is concerned with the absolute, the essential. How then does theology sit within postmodernity? Is postmodern theology possible, or is such a concept a contradiction in terms? Should theology bother about postmodernism or just get on with its own thing? Can it? Theologians have responded in many different ways to the challenges posed by theories of postmodernity. In this introductory 2003 guide to a complex area, editor Kevin J. Vanhoozer addresses the issue head on in a lively survey of what 'talk about God' might mean in a postmodern age, and vice versa. The book then offers examples of different types of contemporary theology in relation to postmodernity, while the second part examines the key Christian doctrines in postmodern perspective. Leading theologians contribute to this clear and informative Companion, which no student of theology should be without.
The Weakness of God
Title | The Weakness of God PDF eBook |
Author | John D. Caputo |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | 374 |
Release | 2006-04-27 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0253013518 |
The author of What Would Jesus Deconstruct? makes “a bold attempt to reconfigure the terms of debate around the topic of divine omnipotence” (Choice). Applying an ever more radical hermeneutics—including Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology, Derridian deconstruction, and feminism—John D. Caputo breaks down the name of God in this irrepressible book. Instead of looking at God as merely a name, Caputo views it as an event, or what the name conjures or promises in the future. For Caputo, the event exposes God as weak, unstable, and barely functional. While this view of God flies in the face of most religions and philosophies, it also puts up a serious challenge to fundamental tenets of theology and ontology. Along the way, Caputo’s readings of the New Testament, especially of Paul’s view of the Kingdom of God, help to support the “weak force” theory. This penetrating work cuts to the core of issues and questions—What is the nature of God? What is the nature of being? What is the relationship between God and being? What is the meaning of forgiveness, faith, piety, or transcendence?—that define the terrain of contemporary philosophy of religion. “Caputo comes out of the closet as a theologian in this work.” —Catherine Keller, Drew University “Caputo has a gift for explaining Continental philosophy’s jargon succinctly and accurately, and despite technical and foreign terms, this book will engage upper-level undergraduates. Includes scriptural and general indexes . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice
Truth Decay
Title | Truth Decay PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas Groothuis |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | 308 |
Release | 2000-05-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780830822287 |
Douglas Groothuis sees the basic tenets of postmodernism as intellectually flawed and here unveils how truth can be defended in the postmodern era in the vital areas of theology, apologetics, ethics and the arts.
Postmodern Christianity
Title | Postmodern Christianity PDF eBook |
Author | John W. Riggs |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | 187 |
Release | 2003-04-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0567246302 |
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.