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Culture in a post-secular context [electronic resource] : theological possibilities in Milbank, Barth and Bediako / Alan Thomson.

By: Publisher: Cambridge : James Clarke, 2014Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780227902776
  • 0227902777
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 261 23
LOC classification:
  • BT83.597
Online resources:
Contents:
Front cover; Half title; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Theology and the Neutrality of Culture; 2. Challenging the Neutrality of Culture; 3. John Milbank and a Theological Account of Culture; 4. Milbank, Violence, and Idealization; 5. Karl Barth and a Theological Alternative; 6. Kwame Bediako and an African Alternative; Conclusion; Bibliography; Back cover.
Summary: Is culture a theologically neutral concept? The contemporary experts on culture-anthropologists and sociologists-argue that it is. Theologians and missiologists would seem to agree, given the extent of their reliance on anthropological and sociological definitions of culture. Yet this appears a strange reliance given that presumed neutrality in the sciences is a consistently challenged assumption. It is stranger still given that so much theological energy has been expended on understanding and defining the human person in specifically theological as opposed to anthropological terms when cultur.
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Front cover; Half title; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Theology and the Neutrality of Culture; 2. Challenging the Neutrality of Culture; 3. John Milbank and a Theological Account of Culture; 4. Milbank, Violence, and Idealization; 5. Karl Barth and a Theological Alternative; 6. Kwame Bediako and an African Alternative; Conclusion; Bibliography; Back cover.

Is culture a theologically neutral concept? The contemporary experts on culture-anthropologists and sociologists-argue that it is. Theologians and missiologists would seem to agree, given the extent of their reliance on anthropological and sociological definitions of culture. Yet this appears a strange reliance given that presumed neutrality in the sciences is a consistently challenged assumption. It is stranger still given that so much theological energy has been expended on understanding and defining the human person in specifically theological as opposed to anthropological terms when cultur.

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