TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomson,Alan
TI  - Culture in a post-secular context: theological possibilities in Milbank, Barth and Bediako 
SN  - 9780227902776
AV  - BT83.597 
U1  - 261 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - James Clarke
KW  - Christianity and culture
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Postmodern theology
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Life
KW  - Social Issues
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Christianity
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - RELIGION / Christian Theology / Anthropology
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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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