Description: This concise yet thorough summary of 20th century continental thought explores research questions that are relevant to contemporary developments in the fields of continental philosophy and political theology, wrestling with the implications of entering a post-secular epoch in both fields.
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Colby Dickinson is Associate Professor of Theology at Loyola University Chicago, USA.
Colby Dickinson is assistant professor of theology at Loyola University, Chicago. He is the author of Agamben and Theology (2011) and Between the Canon and the Messiah (2013), as well as numerous articles on contemporary continental philosophy and theology. He is editor of The Postmodern 'Saints' of France (2013) and The Shaping of Tradition: Context and Normativity (2013).Review Quotes:
"Dickinson argues for more fluid fertile borderlands between philosophy and theology. Deploying a dialectics of 'double negation' he critiques the mega-narratives of modernity in order to open a new 'logics' of transfusion between faith and reason. This allows for a positive revisiting of the roots of theological inquiry while embracing the most robust resources of postmodern thinking. A timely, bold and engaging work." --Richard Kearney, Charles Seelig Professor of Philosophy, Boston College
"This book is more than a masterful mapping of a huge swath of contemporary theology and continental philosophy. Dickinson's negative dialectic is also a cookbook of risky strategies--so many spiritual exercises on offer to us-- which situate living thought along a precarious fault line of disenchantment and hope that neither philosophy nor theology can successfully manage." --Ward Blanton, author of Materialism for the Masses: Saint Paul and the Philosophy of Undying Life "Dickinson is one of our best guides to the leading edges where continental philosophy and theology intersect. In Theology and Contemporary Continental Philosophy, he offers a concise, accessible overview of this interaction. The negative dialectics of philosophy are entangled with negative theology to generate a weakened but transformative discourse that opens up both to other, nondualist ways of thinking." --Clayton Crockett, Professor of Philosophy and Religion, University of Central Arkansas, USA