Adam Kotsko

What Is Theology?: Christian Thought and Contemporary Life

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Produktbeschreibung

Adam Kotsko makes the case for the continued relevance of Christian theology for contemporary intellectual life, demonstrating its vibrancy as a creative and constructive pursuit outside the church, rethinking its often rivalrous relationship with philosophy, and tracing the theological roots of modern models of governance and racial oppression.

Produktdetails

• Perspectives in Continental Ph
• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9780823297818
• ISBN-10: 0823297810
• Artikelnr.: 60983056

Autorenporträt

Adam Kotsko teaches in the Shimer Great Books School at North Central College. His most recent books are Agamben¿s Philosophical Trajectory and Neoliberalism¿s Demons: On the Political Theology of Late Capital.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface xi Introduction: What Is Theology? 1 PART I : THEOLOGY BEYOND THE LIMITS OF RELIGION ALONE Bonhoeffer on Continuity and Crisis: From Objective Spirit to Religionless Christianity 27 Resurrection without Religion 39 Toward a Materialist Theology: Slavoj iek on Thinking God beyond the Master Signifier 50 PART II : THEOLOGY UNDER PHILOSOPHICAL CRITIQUE The Failed Divine Performative: Reading Judith Butler
s Critique of Theology with Anselm
s On the Fall of the Devil 63 Translation, Hospitality, and Supersession: Lamin Sannehand Jacques Derrida on the Future of Christianity 79 Agamben the Theologian 94 PART III : THEOLOGY AND THE GENEALOGY OF THE MODERN WORLD The Problem of Evil and the Problem of Legitimacy 109 Modernity
s Original Sin: Toward a Theological Genealogy of Race 122 The Trinitarian Century: God, Governance, and Race 143 Acknowledgments 165 Notes 167 Bibliography 183 Index 191