Christ and Culture

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John Wiley & Sons, Apr 15, 2008 - Religion - 288 pages
Leading theologian Graham Ward presents a stimulating series of reflections on Christ and contemporary culture.
  • Takes as its starting point Niebuhr’s famous volume on ‘Christ and Culture’ published in the 1970s
  • Explores representations of Christ from sources as diverse as the New Testament and twentieth-century continental philosophy
  • Considers Christ and culture in the light of contemporary categories such as the body, gender, desire, politics and the sublime
  • Develops an original and imaginative Christology rooted in Scriptural exegesis and concerned with today’s cultural issues
  • The author has been described as ‘the most visionary theologian of his generation’.
 

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Contents

Introduction
1
Part One THE ECONOMY OF RESPONSE
27
Part Two ENGENDERING CHRIST
111
Part Three THE LIVING CHRIST ECONOMIES OF REDEMPTION
181
Index
267
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About the author (2008)

Graham Ward is Professor of Contextual Theology and Ethics at the University of Manchester. His previous books include Barth, Derrida and the Language of Theology (1995), Theology and Contemporary Critical Theory (1996), The Postmodern God (Blackwell, 1997), Radical Orthodoxy (1998), The Certeau Reader (Blackwell, 1999), Cities of God (2000), The Blackwell Companion to Postmodern Theology (Blackwell, 2001), True Religion (Blackwell, 2002) and Cultural Transformation and Religious Practice (2004).

Bibliographic information

TitleChrist and Culture
Challenges in Contemporary Theology
AuthorGraham Ward
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2008
ISBN0470777249, 9780470777244
Length288 pages
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Religion / Faith
Religion / General
  
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