
The Logic of Incarnation
James K. A. Smith's Critique of Postmodern Religion
Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published on 1. January 2009
Book
Hardback
252 pages
978-1-4982-5212-6 (ISBN)
Description
With his Logic of Incarnation, James K. A. Smith has provided a compelling critique of the universalizing tendencies in some strands of postmodern philosophy of religion. A truly postmodern account of religion must take seriously the preference for particularity first evidenced in the Christian account of the incarnation of God. Moving beyond the urge to universalize, which characterizes modern thought, Smith argues that it is only by taking seriously particular differences--historical, religious, and doctrinal--that we can be authentically religious and authentically postmodern.
Smith remains hugely influential in both academic discourse and church movements. This book is the first organized attempt to bring both of these aspects of Smith's work into conversation with each other and with him. With articles from an internationally respected group of philosophers, theologians, pastors, and laypeople, the entire range of Smith's considerable influence is represented here. Discussing questions of embodiment, eschatology, inter-religious dialogue, dogma, and difference, this book opens all the most relevant issues in postmodern religious life to a unique and penetrating critique.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
521 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4982-5212-6 (9781498252126)
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James K. A. Smith's Critique of Postmodern Religion
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Neal DeRoo is Teaching Fellow in the Philosophy Department at Boston College. He is the co-editor of Phenomenology and Eschatology: Not Yet in the Now (forthcoming, 2008). Brian Lightbody is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Brock University. His main research interests are in Nietzsche and Foucault. He is currently working on a book entitled: One World Only: Nietzsche, Davidson, and the Rejection of the Two-World Hypothesis.