Title Culture in a post-secular context : theological possibilities in Milbank, Barth, and Bediako / Alan Thomson

Published Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 296 pages) Contents Theology and the neutrality of culture -- Challenging the neutrality of culture -- John Milbank and a theological account of culture -- Milbank, violence, and idealization -- Karl Barth and a theological alternative -- Kwame Bediako and an African alternative Summary Annotation 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 culture is in some sense the expression of this personhood in corporate and material forms. This book argues that culture is not and has never been a theologically neutral concept; rather, it always expresses some theological posture and is therefore a term that naturally invites theological investigation. Going about this task is difficult however, in the face of a longterm reliance on the social sciences that seems to have starved the contemporary theological community of resources for defining culture. Against this it is argued that rich subterranean veins for such a task do exist within the recent tradition, most notably in the writings of John Milbank, Karl Barth, and Kwame Bediako Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-288) and index Notes Print version record Subject Milbank, John Barth, Karl, 1886-1968. Bediako, Kwame SUBJECT Barth, Karl, 1886-1968 fast Bediako, Kwame fast Milbank, John fast Subject Postmodern theology. Christianity and culture -- History of doctrines -- 20th century Christian sociology -- History of doctrines -- 20th century Christianity and the social sciences -- History of doctrines Christianity -- Africa Secularization. Theology -- History -- 20th century. RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Systematic. RELIGION -- Christianity -- General. Postmodern theology Christian sociology -- History of doctrines Christianity Christianity and culture -- History of doctrines Christianity and the social sciences -- History of doctrines Secularization Theology Africa Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781630873028 1630873020

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