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.

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Produktdetails

• 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