ABSTRACT

Secular Theology brings together new writings by some of America's most influential theological and religious thinkers on the viability of secular theology. Critically assessing Radical Orthodoxy and putting American radical theology in context, it provides new resources for philosophical theology.
Themes covered include postmodern theology, ethics, psychoanalysis, the death of God and medieval theology.

chapter |9 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|16 pages

Theology and the secular

chapter 2|11 pages

Postmodern secular theology

chapter 3|14 pages

À-Dieu to Jacques Derrida

Descartes' ghost, or the Holy Spirit in secular theology

chapter 4|22 pages

Anxiety, risk and transformation

Re-visiting Tillich with Lacan

chapter 5|19 pages

Love and law

John Milbank and Hermann Cohen on the ethical possibilities of secular society

chapter 6|12 pages

On Whitehead's proposition “Life is robbery”

Prolegomena to any future ethics

chapter 8|11 pages

The gift of prayer

chapter 9|26 pages

And maker mates with made

World and self-creation in Eriugena and Joyce

chapter 11|11 pages

Theography

Signs of God in a postmodern age

chapter 14|13 pages

God is of (possibility)