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Christ and Culture
Graham Ward
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Description for Christ and Culture
Paperback. Leading theologian Graham Ward presents a stimulating series of reflections on Christ and contemporary culture. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
Leading theologian Graham Ward presents a stimulating series of reflections on Christ and contemporary culture.
Leading theologian Graham Ward presents a stimulating series of reflections on Christ and contemporary culture.
- Takes as its starting point Niebuhr’s famous volume on ‘Christ and Culture’ published in the 1970s
- Explores representations of Christ from sources as diverse as the New Testament and twentieth-century continental philosophy
- Considers Christ and culture in the light of contemporary categories such as the body, gender, desire, politics and the sublime
- Develops an original and imaginative Christology rooted in Scriptural exegesis and concerned with today’s cultural issues
- The author has been described as ‘the most visionary theologian of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9781405121415
SKU
V9781405121415
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Graham Ward
Graham Ward is Professor of Contextual Theology and Ethics at the University of Manchester. His previous books include Barth, Derrida and the Language of Theology (1995), Theology and Contemporary Critical Theory (1996), The Postmodern God (Blackwell, 1997), Radical Orthodoxy (1998), The Certeau Reader (Blackwell, 1999), Cities of God (2000), The Blackwell Companion to Postmodern Theology (Blackwell, 2001), True Religion (Blackwell, ... Read more
Reviews for Christ and Culture
In this book Graham Ward lifts debates about Christ and culture to an unprecedented level of sophistication and at the same time decisively moves them away from a theologically liberal ambience towards one that is genuinely orthodox and Catholic, but in a new, critical and unavoidably controversial mode. He most significantly advances our ability to tackle the question of what ... Read more