Secular Theology: American Radical Theological Thought

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Clayton Crockett
Psychology Press, 2001 - Philosophy - 249 pages

Secular Theology brings together new writings by some of America's most influential theological and religious thinkers on the viability of secular theology. Critically assessing Radical Orthodoxy and putting American radical theology in context, it provides new resources for philosophical theology.
Themes covered include postmodern theology, ethics, psychoanalysis, the death of God and medieval theology.

 

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Contents

Notes on contributors
9
Theology and the secular
11
Postmodern secular theology
26
revisiting Tillich with Lacan
51
John Milbank and Hermann Cohen on
73
prolegomena
92
The gift of prayer
130
Kenotic existence and the aesthetics of grace
167
signs of God in a postmodern age
187
Malformed essence misplaced concreteness and the law of
212
God is of possibility
233
Index of names
247
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About the author (2001)

Clayton Crockett is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion at the College of William and Mary. He is the author of A Theology of the Sublime (Routledge, 2001) and managing editor of the online Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (www.jcrt.org).

Bibliographic information

TitleSecular Theology: American Radical Theological Thought
EditorClayton Crockett
Editionillustrated
PublisherPsychology Press, 2001
ISBN041525051X, 9780415250511
Length249 pages
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Philosophy / Religious
Religion / Christian Theology / General
Religion / Christianity / General
Religion / Fundamentalism
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