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DESIRING THEOLOGY
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| By: |
Charles E. Winquist |
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Hardback |
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£80.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0226902129 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780226902128 |
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| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 December, 1994 |
| Series: |
Religion and Postmodernism |
| Pages: |
178 |
| Description: |
Argues for the possibility of theological thinking in a postmodern secular milieu, equating a desire to think theologically with a desire for thinking that does not disappoint. Winquist suggests that, in the wake of psychoanalysis, theology must elaborate the meaning of desire in its own discourse. |
| Synopsis: |
This text argues for the possibility of theological thinking in a postmodern secular milieu. Moving beyond the now familiar reiteration of postmodernity's losses - the death of God, the displacement of the self, the end of history, the closure of the book - Winquist equates a desire to think theologically with a desire, amidst postmodernity's disappointments, for a thinking that does not disappoint. To desire theology in this sense is to desire to know an "other" in and of language that can be valued in the forming of personal and communal identity. In this book, "desiring theology" carries another sense as well, for Winquist argues that, in the wake of psychoanalysis, theology must elaborate the meaning and importance of desire in its own discourse. Winquist's work is tactical as well as theoretical, showing what kind of work theology can do in a postmodern age. He suggests that theology is closely akin to what Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari refer to as a minor intensive use of a major language. The minor intensive theological use of language, Winquist argues, pressures the ordinary weave of discourse and opens it to desire.Thus theology becomes a work against "the disappointment of thinking". Engaged with the work of Nietzsche, Derrida, Tillich, Robert P. Scharlemann and Mark C. Taylor, among others, this book aims to provide a contribution to contemporary theology. |
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US |
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University of Chicago Press |
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