Varieties of Postmodern Theology (Suny Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought) - Softcover

Griffin, David Ray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791400514 ISBN 13: 9780791400517

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1989

Synopsis

This book sorts out the confusion created by the use of the term "postmodern" in relation to widely divergent theological positions. Four different types of postmodern theology are distinguished in the preface: constructive, deconstructive, liberationist, and conservative. Two forms of each type are discussed in the book.

Writing from a constructive, postmodern perspective, the authors enter into dialogue with the deconstructive postmodernism of Mark C. Taylor and Jean-Francois Lyotard, with the liberationist postmodernism of Harvey Cox and Cornel West, and with the conservative postmodernism of George William Rutler and John Paul II.

About this title

About the Author:

David Ray Griffin is professor of philosophy of religion at the School of Theology at Claremont and Claremont Graduate School, executive director of the Center for Process Studies, and founding president of the Center for a Postmodern World.

William A. Beardslee is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Religion Emeritus at Emory University and director of the Process and Faith Program of the Center for Process Studies in Claremont, California.

Joe Holland is executive director of the Pallottine Institute for Lay leadership and Apostolate Research at Seton Hall University and director of the American Catholic Lay Network in Washington, DC.

About this edition

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0791400514
• ISBN 13: 9780791400517
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180