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Adam Kotsko makes the case for the continued relevance of Christian theology for contemporary intellectual life, demonstrating its vibrancy as a creative and constructive pursuit outside the church, rethinking its often rivalrous relationship with philosophy, and tracing the theological roots of modern models of governance and racial oppression.

Table of Contents

Preface | xi
Introduction: What Is Theology? | 1
PART I : THEOLOGY BEYOND THE LIMITS OF RELIGION ALONE
Bonhoeffer on Continuity and Crisis: From Objective Spirit to Religionless Christianity | 27
Resurrection without Religion | 39
Toward a Materialist Theology: Slavoj Žižek on Thinking God beyond the Master Signifier | 50
PART II : THEOLOGY UNDER PHILOSOPHICAL CRITIQUE
The Failed Divine Performative:
Reading Judith Butler’s Critique of Theology with Anselm’s On the Fall of the Devil | 63
Translation, Hospitality, and Supersession:
Lamin Sannehand Jacques Derrida on the Future of Christianity | 79
Agamben the Theologian | 94
PART III : THEOLOGY AND THE GENEALOGY OF THE MODERN WORLD
The Problem of Evil and the Problem of Legitimacy | 109
Modernity’s Original Sin: Toward a Theological Genealogy of Race | 122
The Trinitarian Century: God, Governance, and Race | 143
Acknowledgments | 165
Notes | 167
Bibliography | 183
Index | 191

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      Publisher Fordham University Press
      Published 7 September 2021
      ISBN-13 9780823297818
      978-0823297818
      ISBN-10 0823297810
      Also in:
      Philosophy of religion

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Adam Kotsko makes the case for the continued relevance of Christian theology for contemporary intellectual life, demonstrating its vibrancy as a creative and constructive pursuit outside the church, rethinking its often rivalrous relationship with philosophy, and tracing the theological roots of modern models of governance and racial oppression.

      Table of Contents

      Preface | xi
      Introduction: What Is Theology? | 1
      PART I : THEOLOGY BEYOND THE LIMITS OF RELIGION ALONE
      Bonhoeffer on Continuity and Crisis: From Objective Spirit to Religionless Christianity | 27
      Resurrection without Religion | 39
      Toward a Materialist Theology: Slavoj Žižek on Thinking God beyond the Master Signifier | 50
      PART II : THEOLOGY UNDER PHILOSOPHICAL CRITIQUE
      The Failed Divine Performative:
      Reading Judith Butler’s Critique of Theology with Anselm’s On the Fall of the Devil | 63
      Translation, Hospitality, and Supersession:
      Lamin Sannehand Jacques Derrida on the Future of Christianity | 79
      Agamben the Theologian | 94
      PART III : THEOLOGY AND THE GENEALOGY OF THE MODERN WORLD
      The Problem of Evil and the Problem of Legitimacy | 109
      Modernity’s Original Sin: Toward a Theological Genealogy of Race | 122
      The Trinitarian Century: God, Governance, and Race | 143
      Acknowledgments | 165
      Notes | 167
      Bibliography | 183
      Index | 191

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