By Graham Ward, James Smith
ISBN-10: 0334043506
ISBN-13: 9780334043508
The world over acclaimed theologian Graham Ward is celebrated for his considerate engagement with postmodernism. This quantity, the fourth within the Church and Postmodern tradition sequence, deals an enticing examine the political nature of the postmodern world.
In the 1st part, "The World," Ward considers "the indicators of the days" and the political nature of latest postmodernism. it truly is significant, he indicates, that the church comprehend the realm in an effort to tackle it thoughtfully. within the moment part, "The Church," he turns to functional software, interpreting what trustworthy discipleship seems like inside this political context. Clergy and people attracted to the rising church will locate this paintings fairly notion scary.
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It is a description with a difference, for it explores the operations of the church in this cultural imaginary—its traditions, its liturgies, its symbols and stories, its current practices and future hopes. It is a description of social and cultural interactions, the pasts and projected futures and the dreams and ideologies that inform them. It is not an attempt to make the church more political or make individual believers more political (although it does describe an increasing and worrying tendency toward depoliticization, a tendency that it wishes to counter).
See his essay “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses: Notes Towards an Investigation” in Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays, trans. Ben Brewster (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2001), 127–86. Foucault later called these practices “technologies” that figured, for those subjected to them, their sense of themselves. 7. There were illegitimate authorizations to act. Scholars have identified two groups: the Zealots and the Sicarii, who sought by violent means to stir up anti-imperial hatred.
A second volume was already beginning to shape itself as Cities of God was being published. This would engage more with how the city saw itself. But the questions the first volume raised would not go away, and they needed to be answered before I could again embark on the culture of the postmodern city and a theological response to it. Three questions came to the fore: From what place does theology speak? How do cultures change? And what is the relationship between cultural transformation and religious practices such as the writing of theology?
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