The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology

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Part one: Types of postmodern theology 1

Theology and the condition of postmodernity: a report on knowledge (of God) 3 K E V I N J. V A N H O O Z E R

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Anglo-American postrnodernity: a theology of communal practice 26 NANCEY MURPHY A N D BRAD J. KALLENBERG

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Typeface Swerin lot13 pt.

3 Postliberal theology 42 GEORGE HUNSINGER

System m G 2 ~[TB]

4 Postmetaphysical theology 58 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN ISBN

o 521 79062 x hardback o 521 79395 5 paperback

T H O M A S A. CARLSON

5 Deconstructive theology 76 GRAHAM WARD

6 Reconstructive theology 92 D A V l D RAY G R I F F I N

7 Feminist theology

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MARY MCCLINTOCK FULKERSON

8 Radical orthodoxy

126

D. STEPHEN LONG

Part two: Christian doctrine in postmodern perspective 9 Scripture and tradition

149

KEVIN J. VANHOOZER

lo TheoIogical method

170

D A N R. STIVER

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The Trinity

186

D A V I D S. C O N N I N G H A M