Bøker av Graham Ward

"Religion dominates world affairs. Ward argues that the study of theology and religion, as a single academic discipline, plays a vital role in helping us to understand humanity. Religions can be used to justify inhumane actions, but they also feed dreams, inspire hopes, and shape aspirations. Religion will not go away, so it needs to be understood"--

This volume presents a systematic account of the teachings of the Christian faith to offer a vision, from a human, created, and limited perspective, of the ways all things might be understood from the divine perspective.

Provides a resource for studies in religion and politics. Divided in three parts, this book outlines the relevance of reviewing the relationship between the two subject areas and the key concepts that relate these two fields. It comprises a selection of readings that explore the metaphor of the body and its political deployment.

Leading theologian Graham Ward presents a stimulating series of reflections on Christ and contemporary culture.

An exciting contribution to the Radical Orthodoxy series, Graham Ward fills a major void in theological literature by offering the first detailed theological response to urban living for thirty-five years.

This new and original analysis of the problem of religious language draws parallels between Karl Barth's doctrine of analogy and the work of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, and concludes that it is a theological reading of Derrida's economy of difference.

This manifesto traces the genealogy of "true religion" in the western world. It charts changes in our understanding of the term from Shakespeare to Salmon Rushdie, pointing out how closely linked those changes are to secularism, liberalism, and the development of capitalism.

The book sets out to address and answer three questions from the point of view of Christian theology. The first is, from where does theology speak? The second is, what are the mechanisms whereby cultures change? The third is, how might we conceive the relationship between the contemporary production of theological discourse and the transformation of cultures more generally? Drawing upon the work of standpoint epistemologists, cultural anthropologists and social scientists, the book argues that public acts of interpretation are involvements in renegotiating the future direction of cultural change. Though the enquiry is conducted from one particular standpoint - Christian theology - the observations and suggestions it makes regarding cultural transformation and the defense it makes of syncretism have more general application.