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Nietzsche and Theology


Nietzsche and Theology

Hardback by Hovey, Craig

Nietzsche and Theology

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ISBN:
9780567031518
Publication Date:
7 Aug 2008
Language:
English;English
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:
T.& T.Clark Ltd
Pages:
192 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 27 May - 1 Jun 2024
Nietzsche and Theology

Description

This title presents a look at how Nietzsche's most generative and provocative ideas are also deeply theological and continue to have relevance in teaching Christians how to be Christians in the world today.Over a century ago, Nietzsche famously declared the death of God, but this has hardly kept Christian theologians from making positive use of this 'master of suspicion'."Nietzsche and Theology" displays how his most generative and provocative ideas are also deeply theological and continue to teach Christians how to be Christians in the world in which they find themselves. Hovey highlights the constructive contributions that can emerge from receptively meeting Nietzsche as modernity's philosophical other. Unchained from resenting Nietzsche's 'philosophical hammer', such encounters will surely reward those who journey into the far country of Nietzsche's Christianity."Nietzsche and Theology" is ideally suited to students in theology and professional theologians who have a working knowledge of philosophy and philosophical theology, but who have not faced Nietzsche in theological debate or grappled with him as a specific resource.

Contents

Preface; Introduction: Should Christians read Nietzsche? Why now?; Part I - The Man for Theology; 1 A Non-Tragic Life: A Short Biography; 2 What is Wrong with Philosophy? An Introduction to Nietzsche's Works; Part II - Zarathustra Speaks; 3 Un-Mastering Knowledge: Nietzsche's Critique of Epistemology Perspectivism, Christian Anthropology, and Scripture; 4 Culture of Nothingness: Christianity's Spectre of Nihilism The Legacy of 19th Century Christian Thought in Europe; 5 Un-Meaning History: Nietzsche's Critique of History History in Apocalyptic Perspective; 6 Un-Powering the Good: Nietzsche's Critique of Morality Beyond ressentiment, "Free Spirits" and the Holy Spirit; 7 Discharging Being: Nietzsche's Critique of Metaphysics Christian Ontology and Onto-Theology; Part III - Signs of Morning; 8 Nietzsche in Theology: The Reception of Nietzsche in Theology Types of Postmodern Theology Responding to The Anti-Christ; 9 Dancing and Singing: A Positive Proposal for Christian Life and Thought in Light of Nietzsche; References.

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