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  2. 1. Theology beyond Representation : Foucault, Deleuze and the Phantasms of Theological Thinking

    Author : Petra Carlsson; Mattias Martinson; Anders Johansson; Philip Goodchild; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Theology; Representation; Representation critique; Michel Foucault; Gilles Deleuze; Thomas J.J. Altizer; Graham Ward; Emilia Fogelklou; Death of God theology; Radical Orthodoxy; Systematic Theology and Studies in Worldviews; Systematisk teologi med livsåskådningsforskning;

    Abstract : Theology beyond Representation explores the theological opportunities embedded in Michel Foucault’s and Gilles Deleuze’s critique of Christian thinking and of what they regard as a Christian and oppressive logic of representation. Foucault’s and Deleuze’s thoughts on representation are currently discussed in many fields neighbouring theology (e. READ MORE

  4. 2. The Dark Night : St John of the Cross and Eastern Orthodox Theology

    Author : Johannes Pulkkanen; Carl Reinhold Bråkenhielm; Anders Ekenberg; Andrew Louth; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Orthodox theology; Catholic theology; mystical theology; St John of the Cross; the dark night of the soul; Plotinus; neo-Platonism; spiritual exercises; St Symeon the New Theologian; compunction; spiritual father; Vladimir Lossky; filioque; Trinitarian theology; energeiai; St Maximus Confessor; deification; union with God.; Systematic theology; Systematisk teologi;

    Abstract : Russian émigré theologian Vladimir Lossky's (1903-1958) claims in his classic study of 1944, The Mystical Theology of Eastern Church, that the emphasis on the experience of spiritual separation from God in Western mystical theology ultimately goes back to how Latin churches began to add the word filioque (and-of-the-Son) to the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed in the sixth century. In his explanation Lossky discusses the theology of the Greek fathers suggesting that the idea of the Spirit’s generation from both the Father and the Son both builds upon and generates philosophical ideas that conflict with the possibility of receiving personal experiential knowledge of God. READ MORE

  5. 3. The Order of Value : Christian Theology and the Market Economy

    Author : Ida Simonsson; Mattias Martinson; Thomas Ekstrand; Stefan Schwarzkopf; Devin Singh; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Secularization; Post-Christian theology; Value theory; Just price; Marginalism; Christian subjectivity; Soteriology; Cosmology; Economic theology; Political theology; Systematisk teologi med livsåskådningsforskning; Systematic Theology and Studies in Worldviews;

    Abstract : This study explores the relationship between Christian theology and the market economy, with a particular focus on value theory. Its backdrop is the scholarly recognition of the historical intertwinement of Christian theology and secular society. READ MORE

  6. 4. Perseverance without doctrine : Adorno, self-critique, and the ends of academic theology

    Author : Mattias Martinson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; academic theology; academy; Adorno Th. W.; aesthetics; critical theory; dialectics; dogmatism; fundamental theology; ideology; materialism; negativity; philosophy of music; self-critique; Tracy D; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Systematic theology; Systematisk teologi; Tros- och livsåskådningsvetenskap; Studies In Faiths and Ideologies;

    Abstract : The study approaches the question of the role and legitimacy of academic theology given a certain theoretical conception of the intellectual situation. From the perspective of a critical interpretation of some contemporary problems of theology, on the one hand, and some problematic aspects of secular thought, on the other, the study inquires into the notion of theology for a self-critical theoretical potential of general academic value. READ MORE

  7. 5. Frames : Social Philosophy and Hermeneutics as Focal Points for Theology-Related Readings of Theodor W. Adorno's Critical Theory

    Author : Mattias Martinson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Adorno Th. W; critical theory; hermeneutics; Horkheimer M; postmodernity; social philosophy; theology; Systematic theology; Systematisk teologi;

    Abstract : Avhandlingen söker svara på två förberedande frågor: hur man kan tolka Theodor W. Adornos kritiska teori idag? Samt hur en sådan tolkning kan göras relevant för aktuell teologisk problematik?... READ MORE