TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomson,Alan
TI  - Culture in a post-secular context: theological possibilities in Milbank, Barth, and Bediako 
SN  - 9781630873028
AV  - BT83.597 .T46 2014eb
U1  - 230.046 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Eugene, Oregon
PB  - Pickwick Publications
KW  - Milbank, John.
KW  - Barth, Karl,
KW  - Bediako, Kwame.
KW  - Bediako, Kwame
KW  - Milbank, John
KW  - Postmodern theology
KW  - Christianity and culture
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Christian sociology
KW  - Christianity and the social sciences
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Africa
KW  - Secularization
KW  - Theology
KW  - History
KW  - Théologie postmoderne
KW  - Sciences sociales
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Christianisme
KW  - Histoire des doctrines
KW  - Afrique
KW  - Sécularisation
KW  - Théologie
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Theology
KW  - Systematic
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - General
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-288) and index; Theology and the neutrality of culture -- Challenging the neutrality of culture -- John Milbank and a theological account of culture -- Milbank, violence, and idealization -- Karl Barth and a theological alternative -- Kwame Bediako and an African alternative
N2  - Annotation; Is culture a theologically neutral concept? The contemporary experts on culture--anthropologists and sociologists--argue that it is. Theologians and missiologists would seem to agree, given the extent of their reliance on anthropological and sociological definitions of culture. Yet, this appears a strange reliance given that presumed neutrality in the sciences is a consistently challenged assumption. It is stranger still given that so much theological energy has been expended on understanding and defining the human person in specifically theological as opposed to anthropological terms when culture is in some sense the expression of this personhood in corporate and material forms. This book argues that culture is not and has never been a theologically neutral concept; rather, it always expresses some theological posture and is therefore a term that naturally invites theological investigation. Going about this task is difficult however, in the face of a longterm reliance on the social sciences that seems to have starved the contemporary theological community of resources for defining culture. Against this it is argued that rich subterranean veins for such a task do exist within the recent tradition, most notably in the writings of John Milbank, Karl Barth, and Kwame Bediako
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