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1 online resource |
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Radical theologies and philosophies |
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Radical theologies and philosophies.
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Theology and New Materialism; Contents; 1 Introduction to New Materialism and Relational Christian Realism; Deleuze and NM; Deleuze and RCR; The Nature Culture Divide and Assemblage Theory; Essentialism and Determinism; RCR and Latour; Notes; 2 Transcendence; Introduction; RCR on Transcendence; The Apophatic and the Relational; Latour on Transcendence; Caputo on Transcendence; Return to Keller; The Value of the Virtual; Kearney and Chora; Notes; 3 Human Agency; Introduction; A Materialist Theory of Religion; The Posthuman; Vibrant Matter; Bryant on Subjects, Objects and Agency |
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Alien PhenomenologyDelanda and Assemblages; RCR and Human Agency; Badiou on Fidelity; Notes; 4 New Enlightenment; Introduction; Distributed Agency and Plastic Autonomy; Enlightenment: Deferred, Distorted or Discredited?; Stiegler on Reason and Unreason; Meillassoux and Speculative Realism; Latour and Multiple Rationalities; Enlightenment: Progress, Religion, and Violence; Notes; 5 Aesthetics after the Death of God; Introduction; The Frankfurt School and the Critique of Culture; The Beautiful and the Sublime; Rehabilitating Aesthetics; Shaviro on the Beautiful; Lyotard; Ranciere; Stiegler |
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Notes6 Technology as Pharmakon; Practical Examples; The Concept of the Pharmakon; Stiegler Summary; Stiegler and RCR; Hui on the Existence of Digital Objects; Digital Chora?; Notes; 7 Beyond in the Midst: Alternative Practices of Faith; Emerging Church Movement; Balsall Heath Community Forum; Concluding Reflections; Notes; Index |
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This book argues that identified weaknesses in recent theological engagement with New Materialism can be successfully addressed by incorporating insights from Relational Christian Realism. Central themes are those of the relational and the apophatic as they represent different but essential strands of a materialist theology. The relational refers to the work of Deleuze and its influence upon key New Materialist thinkers such as De Landa, Bryant, and Braidotti but supplemented from Relational Christian Realism by Latour and Badiou and with reference to the concept of the apophatic as found in Keller and Kearney. Examining the concepts of transcendence, human agency, and a New Enlightenment, the book moves into more practical areas of aesthetics and technology concluding with a response to the contemporary apocalyptic of climate change. Being "beyond in the midst" requires developing spaces of faithful dissent and holding the tension between the relational and the apophatic in theology.< |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Theology.
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Materialism.
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theology.
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materialism (philosophical movement)
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Philosophy of religion.
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Western philosophy, from c 1900.
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Christian theology.
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RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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Materialism
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Theology
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Electronic book
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9783319545110 |
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3319545116 |
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