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

Theologians have responded in many different ways to the challenges posed by theories of postmodernity. Kevin J. Vanhoozer addresses the issue directly in an introductory survey of what ''talk about God'' might mean in a postmodern age. The book offers examples of different types of contemporary theology in relation to postmodernity, and examines the key Christian doctrines in postmodern perspective. Leading theologians contribute to this informative Companion. 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? Theology And The Condition Of Postmodernity: A Report On Knowledge (of God) / Kevin J. Vanhoozer -- Anglo-american Postmodernity: A Theology Of Communal Practice / Nancey Murphy And Brad J. Kallenberg -- Postliberal Theology / George Hunsinger -- Postmetaphysical Theology / Thomas A. Carlson -- Deconstructive Theology / Graham Ward -- Reconstructive Theology / David Ray Griffin -- Feminist Theology / Mary Mcclintock Fulkerson -- Radical Orthodoxy / D. Stephen Long -- Scripture And Tradition / Kevin J. Vanhoozer -- Theological Method / Dan R. Stiver -- The Trinity / David S. Cunningham -- God And World / Philip Clayton -- The Human Person / John Webster -- Christ And Salvation / Walter Lowe -- Ecclesiology / Stanley J. Grenz -- Holy Spirit And Christian Spirituality / David F. Ford. Editor, Kevin J. Vanhoozer. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. 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 Publisher description Theologians have responded in many different ways to the challenges posed by theories of postmodernity. This introductory 2003 guide offers examples of different types of contemporary theology in relation to postmodernity, and examines the key Christian doctrines in postmodern perspective. Leading theologians contribute to this clear and informative Companion.