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• Takes as its starting point Niebuhr's famous volume on 'Christ and Culture' published in the 1970s
  
• Explores representations of Christ from sources as diverse as the New Testament and twentieth-century continental philosophy
  
• Considers Christ and culture in the light of contemporary categories such as the body, gender, desire, politics and the sublime
  
• Develops an original and imaginative Christology rooted in Scriptural...

In the first section, "The World," Ward considers "the signs of the times" and the political nature of contemporary postmodernism. It is imperative, he suggests, that the church understand the world to be able to address it thoughtfully. In the second section, "The Church," he turns to practical application, examining what faithful...

Since the late 1980s sociologists have been drawing our attention to an international surge in the public visibility of religion. This has increasingly challenged two central aspects of modern western European culture: first, the assumption that as we became more modern we would become more secularised and religion would disappear; and secondly, that religion and politics should occupy radically differentiated spheres in which private conviction did not exert itself within the public realm. The new visibility of religion is not simply a matter of what Keppel famously called 'The Revenge of...

• The definitive collection of essays on postmodern theology, drawing on the work of those individuals who have made a distinctive contribution to the field.
  
• Each essay is introduced with a short account of the writer's previous work, enabling the reader to view it in context.
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• 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 and films, including...

• 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 and films, including...

• The definitive collection of essays on postmodern theology, drawing on the work of those individuals who have made a distinctive contribution to the field.
  
• Each essay is introduced with a short account of the writer's previous work, enabling the reader to view it in context.
  ...

What we imagine can crush us or create us, destroy us or heal us; it can pitch us into battles with demons or set us among the songs of angels. It has roots beneath consciousness and is expressed in moods, rhythms, tones and textures of experience that are as much mental as physiological.

In his new book, a sequel to the earlier Unbelievable, one of Britain's most exciting writers on religion presents a nuanced and many-dimensional portrait of the mystery and creativity of the human imagination.

Discussing the likes of William Wordsworth, William Turner, Samuel...