Postmodernism, Literature and the Future of Theology [Paperback]

These essays are written by scholars from widely differing disciplines and traditions. Theologians, philosophers, literary critics and historians of ideas approach the question of how the judaeo-Christian tradition of theological reflection has suffered from and will negotiate the emergence of postmodern theory and practice in literature and criticism. Chapters deal with specific texts from Euripides to contemporary fiction, and with the traditions of cultural theory from Nietszche to Benjamin, to Derrida and what David Klemm identifies as the tragedy of present theology.Preface - List of Contributors - Introduction: Religious Thought and Contemporary Critical Theory; D.Jasper - Two Ways to Avoid Tragedy; D.E.Klemm - Tragedy is: Scription Contra-Diction; B.Polka - Torn by Desire: Sparagmos in Greek Tragedy and Recent Fiction; R.Detweiler - An Apocalypse of Race and Gender: Body Violence and Forming Identity in Toni Morrison's Beloved; T.M.Ledbetter - The Postmodernity of Judas: Religious Narrative and the Deconstruction of Time; S.Happel - Nietzsche's Theology of History and the Redemption of Postmodernism; B.Zelechow - Theology in the Context of Pluralism and Postmodernity: David Tracy's Theological Method; W.G.Jeanrond - The End of the Story?; D.T.Andersson - Back to Literature and Theology?; D.E.Klemm - Index