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84From God to infinity, or how science raided religion's patent on mysteryZygon 17 (3): 227-242. 1982.The efforts of theologians in the last few decades to adapt their discipline to the methodological constraints of the “empirical sciences” have become obsolete. Just as many theologians have reached a tentative rapproachment with the “secular” mentality, the elements of mystery hitherto shepherded by religious thinkers have been appropriated in the cosmological models of the “new physics.” The paper explores revolutionary developments over the last ten years within quantum physics. It points to …Read more
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11Paul as Political Theologian: How the “New Perspective” Is Reshaping Philosophical and Theological DiscourseIn Antonio Cimino, George Henry van Kooten & Gert Jan van der Heiden (eds.), Saint Paul and Philosophy: The Consonance of Ancient and Modern Thought, De Gruyter. pp. 269-282. 2017.
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8The end of theologyDavies Group. 2000.Publication of The Alchemy of the Word in 1979 brought the deconstructive philosophy of Jacques Derrida into the arena of theological discourse & marked the end of theology as it had been understood by many. This work, revised & reissued as The End of Theology, is an important contribution to understanding the possibilities of a creative postmodern secular theology. The first chapter examines the aims & the shortcomings of language analysis as used in the examination of religious & theological s…Read more
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8Faith and reason: three views (edited book)InterVarsity Press. 2014.Steve Wilkens edits a debate between three different understandings of the relationship between faith and reason, between theology and philosophy. The three views include: Faith and Philosophy in Tension, Faith Seeking Understanding and the Thomistic Synthesis. This introduction to a timeless quandary is an essential resource for students.
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7Moral action, God, and history in the thought of Immanuel KantScholars Press, University of Montana. 1975.
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6The “Light of Light Beyond Light”Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion 1 (2): 258-276. 2019.Despite Jürgen Habermas’ famous suggestion that the violence of history might be mitigated by “the liquidation of unconditional claims,” the issue of whether monotheistic religions and the metaphysical rationality they engender are indeed the hidden source of such violence remains an open one. This essay explores how Derrida with his project “deconstruction” sought to deal in a manner unique to philosophy with the question of the relationship between violence, the unconditional, and the ontologi…Read more
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4Fire and Roses: Postmodernity and the Thought of the BodySUNY Press. 1996.Interprets postmodernity in relation to the body--the "somatological a priori," and applies current critical theory to issues of gender, popular culture fashion, and magic, as well as the Western philosophical/theological tradition.
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2Force of God: Political Theology and the Crisis of Liberal DemocracyCambridge University Press. 2015.For theorists in search of a political theology that is more responsive to the challenges now facing Western democracies, this book tenders a new political economy anchored in a theory of value. The political theology of the future, Carl Raschke argues, must draw on a powerful, hidden impetus--the "force of God"--to frame a new value economy. It must also embrace a radical, "faith-based" revolutionary style of theory that reconceives the power of the "theological" in political thought and action…Read more
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1The Digital Revolution and the Coming of the Postmodern UniversityPsychology Press. 2003.Concerning the changing shape of the university, this book sets out the social, historical and philosophical aspects of the current digital transformation of education.
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Fire and roses, or the problem of postmodern religious thinkingIn Philippa Berry & Andrew Wernick (eds.), Shadow of Spirit: Postmodernism and Religion, Routledge. pp. 93--108. 1992.
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