Description
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 his generation’.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
Part One THE ECONOMY OF RESPONSE 27
1 Christology and Mimesis 29
2 The Schizoid Christ 60
3 The Body of the Church and its Erotic Politics 92
Part Two ENGENDERING CHRIST 111
4 Redemption: Between Reception and Response 113
5 Divinity and Sexual Difference 129
6 The Politics of Christ's Circumcision (and the Mystery of all Flesh) 159
Part Three THE LIVING CHRIST: ECONOMIES OF REDEMPTION 181
7 Allegoria Amoris: A Christian Ethics 183
8 Spiritual Exercises: A Christian Pedagogy 219
9 Suffering and Incarnation: A Christian Politics 248
Index 267
