Contents
List of
Contributors x
Introduction:
“Where We Stand” xii
Graham Ward
Part I
Aesthetics 1
1 Postmodern
Theology as Cultural Analysis 3
Mieke Bal
2 The Man Who
Fell to Earth 24
Gerard Loughlin
3 Communion and
Conversation 48
Regina M.
Schwartz
4 The Ends of
Man and the Future of God 68
Janet Martin
Soskice
5 “Lush Life”:
Foucault’s Analytics of Power and a Jazz
Aesthetic 79
Sharon D. Welch
Part II Ethics
105
6 The Midwinter
Sacrifice 107
7 Postmodernity
and Religious Plurality: Is a Common
Global Ethic
Possible or Desirable? 131
Gavin D’Costa
8 The Christian
Difference, or Surviving Postmodernism 144
Stanley
Hauerwas
9 Justice and
Prudence: Principles of Order in the Platonic City 162
Catherine
Pickstock
10 Visiting
Prisoners 177
William C.
Placher
11 Suffering
and Incarnation 192
Graham Ward
12 Earth God:
Cultivating the Spirit in an Ecocidal Culture 209
Mark I. Wallace
Part III Gender
229
13 An Ethics of
Memory: Promising, Forgiving, Yearning 231
Pamela Sue
Anderson
14 Is Macrina a
Woman? Gregory of Nyssa’s Dialogue on the Soul and Resurrection 249
Virginia Burrus
15 “They Will
Know We are Christians by Our Regulated
Improvisation”:
Ecclesial Hybridity and the Unity of the Church 265
Mary McClintock
Fulkerson
16 On Changing
the Imaginary 280
Grace M.
Jantzen
17
Companionable Wisdoms: What Insights Might Feminist Theorists Gather from
Feminist Theologians? 294
Serene Jones
Part IV
Hermeneutics 309
18 Shattering
the Logos: Hermeneutics Between a Hammer and a Hard Place 311
Daniel Boyarin
19 The Renewal
of Jewish Theology Today: Under the Sign of Three 324
20 Intending
Transcendence: Desiring God 349
Edith
Wyschogrod
Part V
Phenomenology 367
21
Transfiguring God 369
Richard Kearney
22 Presence and
Parousia 394
Jean-Yves
Lacoste
23 The Formal
Reason for the Infinite 399
Jean-Luc Marion
24 Religions as
Conventions 413
Joseph S.
O’Leary
Part VI
Heideggerians 425
25 The
Self-Saving of God 427
Thomas J. J.
Altizer
26 The Subject
of Prayer: Unwilling Words in the Postmodern Access to God 444
Laurence Paul
Hemming
27 The
Christian Message and the Dissolution of Metaphysics 458
Gianni Vattimo
Part VII
Derrideans 467
28 The Poetics
of the Impossible and the Kingdom of God 469
John D. Caputo
29
Anti-Discrimination 482
Don Cupitt
30 Is There a
Postmodern Gospel? 490
Walter Lowe
31 Indian
Territory: Postmodernism Under the Sign of the Body 505
Carl Raschke
Index 517
