Witness to dispossession : the vocation of a postmodern theologian /
Beaudoin, Tom,1969-
"In this collection of essays Tom Beaudoin reflects on the task and purpose of theology in a post-modern age. Beaudoin sketches a view of the theologian as a "witness to dispossession." This dispossession involves the letting go of status and power, but also the comfortable certainties of the past."--BOOK JACKET.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-190) and index.
Teaching -- Foucault teaching theology -- Multiple theological intelligences? an inquiry -- Engaging culture -- Is your spirituality violent? -- Popular culture research and theology -- Vocation -- Reflections on doing practical theology today -- The ethics of characterizing popular faith : scholarship and fandom -- Christian life -- I was imprisoned by subjectivity and you visited me : Bonhoeffer and Foucault on the way to a postmodern Christian self -- The struggle to speak truthfully -- Faith and apocalypse -- Conclusion: Witness to dispossession : on the way to a pre-Christian Catholic theology.
"In this collection of essays Tom Beaudoin reflects on the task and purpose of theology in a post-modern age. Beaudoin sketches a view of the theologian as a "witness to dispossession." This dispossession involves the letting go of status and power, but also the comfortable certainties of the past."--BOOK JACKET.
Philosophical theology.
Postmodernism
Vocation
Philosophical theology.
Postmodernism
Vocation