Beschreibung:
A powerful new exploration of the sacred, from many distinguished theologians, that speaks to a postsecular context and its challenges.
Introduction Andrew W. Hass; Part I. Jasper's Sacred Mode of Being: 1. The sacred opening Andrew W. Hass; 2. A sacramental world: Refiguring the sacred and the secular in David Jasper's 'Sacred' trilogy Paul S. Fiddes; 3. Sacred thinking? Thinking theologically with David Jasper and Paul Gauguin Mattias Martinson; Part II. Theology's Cultural Mode of the Sacred: 4. Theology as literature, rhetoric and ideology Graham Ward; 5. Hope in the sacred community Werner G. Jeanrond; 6. The advent of the nothing Thomas J.J. Altizer; Part III. Culture's Theological Mode of the Sacred: 7. The interdisciplinary nature of literature and theology Yang Huilin; 8. William Blake as leitourgos Christopher Rowland; 9. Bodies dead or alive? Intermediality, ambiguity, and the politics of dying Mieke Bal; 10. The desert is in the words we speak George Pattison; Afterword David Jasper.