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100	1		_aKlassen, Justin D.
245	1	4	_aThe paradox of hope : _btheology and the problem of nihilism / _cby Justin D. Klassen.
264		1	_aEugene, Or. : _bCascade Books, _c©2011.
300			_a1 online resource (viii, 254 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 247-252) and index.
505	0		_aContemporary theology and the turn to rhetoric -- Language and the fear of death -- Consummation or complication? -- Cultural logic and Christian sociality -- Love's obstinate hope.
520			_aIn contemporary public discourse, the supposedly comprehensive explanatory power of reason is used to justify a thoroughgoing suspicion of religion. In recent decades, the critiques of postmodernism have generated a different kind of suspicion by construing history as a process that is too arbitrary to be narrated--either by modern reason or by religion. In light of these developments, a question arises regarding the appropriate theological response to such forms of suspicion, both of which threaten not just religion but our sense of human agency as such. Does the retrieval of a meaningful religious subjectivity in a climate of suspicion demand a renewed emphasis upon theology's rhetorical persuasiveness, as Radical Orthodoxy has recently proposed? Or does identifying the believing subject with theology's "grammar" fail to attend to some of the challenges posed by such suspicion? The Paradox of Hope answers these questions in an original and provocative way by clarifying the complex relationship between post-secular theology and the work of Søren Kierkegaard. Ultimately, Klassen argues that Kierkegaard's influence is crucial, albeit obscured, in current post-secular theological imperatives, and that the Dane's eschewal of persuasion in favor of hope's inexplicable resolve provides a more adequate response to the nihilism of contemporary suspicion than do the rhetorical proposals currently on offer. In light of this argument, The Paradox of Hope also rehabilitates some of the voices typically excluded by contemporary theology's rhetoric, including those of Heidegger, Derrida, and Levinas.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aPhilosophical theology.
650		0	_aPostmodern theology.
650		7	_aPhilosophical theology. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01060773
650		7	_aPostmodern theology. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01073163
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650		7	_aRELIGION / Christianity / General _2bisacsh
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aKlassen, Justin D. _tParadox of hope _z1608997707 _w(DLC) 2011275576 _w(OCoLC)768985301
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