Christ and Culture [Paperback]

• Takes as its starting point Niebuhr’s famous volume on ‘Christ and Culture’ published in the 1970s
  
• Explores representations of Christ from sources as diverse as the New Testament and twentieth-century continental philosophy
  
• Considers Christ and culture in the light of contemporary categories such as the body, gender, desire, politics and the sublime
  
• Develops an original and imaginative Christology rooted in Scriptural exegesis and concerned with today’s cultural issues
  
• The author has been described as ‘the most visionary theologian of his generation’.

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction 1

Part One THE ECONOMY OF RESPONSE 27

1 Christology and Mimesis 29

2 The Schizoid Christ 60

3 The Body of the Church and its Erotic Politics 92

Part Two ENGENDERING CHRIST 111

4 Redemption: Between Reception and Response 113

5 Divinity and Sexual Difference 129

6 The Politics of Christ's Circumcision (and the Mystery of all Flesh) 159

Part Three THE LIVING CHRIST: ECONOMIES OF REDEMPTION 181

7 Allegoria Amoris: A Christian Ethics 183

8 Spiritual Exercises: A Christian Pedagogy 219

9 Suffering and Incarnation: A Christian Politics 248

Index 267