John Milbank (University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK)

Theology and Social Theory

Beyond Secular Reason

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a revised edition of John Milbank's masterpiece, which sketches the outline of a specifically theological social theory. The Times Higher Education Supplement wrote of the first edition that it was "a tour de force of systematic theology. It would be churlish not to acknowledge its provocation and brilliance".

Produktdetails

• Signposts in Theology
• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• 2nd Edition
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 830g
• ISBN-13: 9781405136846
• ISBN-10: 1405136847
• Artikelnr.: 20834770

Autorenporträt

John Milbank is Professor of Religion, Politics and Ethics at the University of Nottingham and one of the most influential contemporary theologians. He is also the author of The Word Made Strange: Theology, Language, Culture (Blackwell, 1996).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements for the First Edition.

Preface to the Second Edition.

Introduction.

Part I: Theology and Liberalism:.

1. Political Theology and the New Science of Politics.

2. Political Economy as Theodicy and Agonistics.

Part II: Theology and Positivism:.

3. Sociology I: From Malebranche to Durkheim.

4. Sociology II: From Kant to Weber.

5. Policing the Sublime: A Critique of the Sociology ofReligion.

Part III: Theology and Dialectics:.

6. For and Against Hegel.

7. For and Against Marx.

8. Founding the Supernatural: Political and Liberation Theologyin the Context of Modern Catholic Thought.

Part IV: Theology and Difference:.

9. Science, Reality and Power.

10. Ontological Violence or, The Post-Modern Problematic.

11. Difference of Virtue, Virtue of Difference.

12. The Other City: Theology as a Social Science.

Index of Names.

Rezensionen

Praise for the First edition

"Milbank's work is a tour de force of systematic theology. Itwould be churlish not to acknowledge its provocation andbrilliance."
Times Higher Education Supplement

"The thesis is relatively simple, its orchestration is stunningin scope as well as in harmonies."
Modern Theology

"John Milbank's sprawling, ambitious and intellectuallydemanding book is in a class of its own."
Studies in Christian Ethics

"John Milbank has written a masterful review of the developmentof modern social thought that at the same time offers a criticismof its dominant paradigms and suggests inherent limits on itsaccomplishments."
Journal of Religion

Praise for the Second Edition

"Theology and Social Theory has proven to be abombshell... We are, therefore, extremely fortunate to havethis second edition with Milbank's dazzling new'Preface'. Re-reading this book is always a pleasure,because it is filled with surprises that forcethought."
Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University

"When the first edition was published the reaction was one ofshock. Now, fifteen years on, the shock has worn off; more and morepeople are questioning the universal competency of secular reason.But this make all the more important the publication of this secondedition. Milbank develops an alternative which has been steadilydeveloping and enriching in the intervening years."
Charles Taylor, McGill University

"[Theology and Social Theory] remains a dense,challenging and elusive masterpiece of a book, which has lost noneof its power to intrigue and repel in equal measure."
Times Literary Supplement, Sept 2006

"This second edition is a vital aid to any reader who wishes tounderstand more fully how Theology and Social Theory relates toMilbank's continued publications and radically orthodoxsensibilities."
Theological Book Review

"An influential and important book ... instructive forstudents in that it analyses and challenges contemporaryassumptions about society and religion." Teaching Theology &Religion