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IntroductionIn Nicholas Adams, George Pattison & Graham Ward (eds.), The Oxford handbook of theology and modern European thought, Oxford University Press. 2013.
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32The Oxford handbook of theology and modern European thought (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2013.This handbook charts and explores recurring themes and approaches to this broad and complex topic, particularly with regard to Theology.
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3Unbelievable: why we believe and why we don'tI.B. Tauris. 2014.Why believe? What kinds of things do people believe in? How have they come to believe them? And how does what they believe -- or disbelieve -- shape their lives and the meaning the world has for them? For Graham Ward, who is one of the most innovative writers on contemporary religion, these questions are more than just academic. They go to the heart not only of who but of what we are as human beings. Over the last thirty years, our understandings of mind and consciousness have changed in importa…Read more
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4The Metaphysics of the BodyIn Chris Boesel (ed.), Apophatic Bodies: Negative Theology, Incarnation, and Relationality, Fordham University Press. pp. 225-250. 2022.
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12Hope in a Secular Age: Deconstruction, Negative Theology, and the Future of Faith (review)Studies in Christian Ethics 34 (4): 557-560. 2020.
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45A Question of Sport and Incarnational TheologyStudies in Christian Ethics 25 (1): 49-64. 2012.A Christian theology that is orientated towards understanding incarnation must be interested in the nature of embodiment. As the experience of those involved in sports centres on the body and its attunement to the situation and environment in which it finds itself, so we can compare the states of immersion in the material world in the athlete’s experience and the experience of Christian piety. This essay offers a comparative phenomenology of two forms of embodiment: the athlete’s entry into ‘the…Read more
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130Book Reviews : Barth's Ethics of Reconciliation, by John Webster, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995. xii+238pp. hb. 35 (review)Studies in Christian Ethics 9 (2): 126-129. 1996.
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14How Hegel became a philosopher: Logos and the economy of logicCritical Research on Religion 1 (3): 270-292. 2013.Sketching the current division within receptions of Hegel, this article argues for Hegel as a philosophical theologian in a way that is not covered by the recent investigations into Hegel's theological project. Examining in particular the early work on Jesus Christ, the article analyses the changes in this work and how these changes in his understanding of Christology enabled Hegel to appreciate the logic of the Logos. This logic of the Logos is the basis for all his subsequent philosophy. It is…Read more
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3Transcorporeality: the ontological scandalBulletin of the John Rylands Library 80 (3): 235-252. 1998.
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3Tragedy as subclause: George Steiner's dialogue with Donald MackinnonHeythrop Journal 34 (3): 274-287. 1993.
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2Barth, Derrida and the Language of TheologyCambridge University Press. 1995.A new and original analysis of the problem of religious language.
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12The secular city and the Christian corpusCultural Values 3 (2): 140-163. 1999.Beginning with a discussion of Fritz Lang's ‘Metropolis’, this paper considers the rise of the city from a theological perspective. The ideal of the modern city was, it is argued, a secularised version of the City of God: the city was to be a place where all human desires might be met, a city without a church because the moral perfection of each human being has been fulfilled. The advent of the postmodern city of consumerist desire undermines this secular dream, and opens a space for theologians…Read more
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2Suspending the material: the turn of radical orthodoxyIn John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock & Graham Ward (eds.), Radical orthodoxy: a new theology, Routledge. pp. 2. 1999.
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6Bodies: The Displaced Body of Jesus ChristIn John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock & Graham Ward (eds.), Radical orthodoxy: a new theology, Routledge. pp. 163--81. 1999.
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5Between Barth's theology of the Word and Levinas's philosophy of SayingIn Claire Elise Katz & Lara Trout (eds.), Emmanuel Levinas, Routledge. pp. 3--2. 2005.
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Theopoiesis and Christian praxisIn Adrian Pabst & Christoph Schneider (eds.), Encounter Between Eastern Orthodoxy and Radical Orthodoxy: Transfiguring the World Through the Word, Ashgate. 2008.
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The schizoid ChristIn Simon Oliver & John Milbank (eds.), The radical orthodoxy reader, Routledge. 2009.
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27Tragedy as subclause: George Steiner's dialogue with Donald MackinnonHeythrop Journal 34 (3). 1993.
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True ReligionWiley-Blackwell. 2002.Through reference to plays, poetry, novels, films and painting, this manifesto traces the genealogy of ‘true religion' in the western world and makes six controversial claims about the past, present and future of religion. Traces a transformation in the way religion is understood and performed in the western world. Makes several major claims about the past, present and future of true religion. Uses cultural metaphors as ways into understanding religion. Refers to plays, poetry, novels, paintings…Read more
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5Theological Perspectives on God and BeautyA&C Black. 2003.Eminent theologians John Milbank, Graham Ward, and Edith Wyschogrod discuss aesthetics, placing radical orthodoxy in dialogue with postmodern theology.
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3The making of the modern metropolisIn Nicholas Adams, George Pattison & Graham Ward (eds.), The Oxford handbook of theology and modern European thought, Oxford University Press. pp. 61. 2013.
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Cultural Transformation and Religious PracticeCambridge University Press. 2004.The book sets out to address and answer three questions from the point of view of Christian theology. The first is, from where does theology speak? The second is, what are the mechanisms whereby cultures change? The third is, how might we conceive the relationship between the contemporary production of theological discourse and the transformation of cultures more generally? Drawing upon the work of standpoint epistemologists, cultural anthropologists and social scientists, the book argues that p…Read more
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12The revelation of the holy other as the wholly other: Between Barth's theology of the word and Levinas's philosophy of sayingModern Theology 9 (2): 159-180. 1993.
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6Review of mark A. Wrathall (ed), Religion After Metaphysics (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2004 (9). 2004.
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15Allegoria: Reading as a Spiritual ExerciseModern Theology 15 (3): 271-295. 1999.What I wish to argue for in this essay is the theological advantage of turning from the stasis of analogy and symbol to the dynamism and semiosis of allegory. The move from static, atemporal discussions of analogy and symbol to allegory will lend itself to a rather different model for the hermeneutical task. It is one that is founded upon narrative, mimesis and participation, and one that presents a more dynamic view of the relationship between revelation , disclosure , representation and knowle…Read more