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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The present collection of essays attempts to reclaim the world by situating its concerns and activities within a theological framework. Not simply returning in nostalgia to the premodern it visits sites in which secularism has invested heavily – aesthetics politics sex the body personhood visibility space and resituates them from a Christian standpoint; that is in terms of the Trinity Christology the Church and the Eucharist. What emerges is a contemporary theological project made possible by the self-conscious superficiality of today’s secularism. For this new project regards the nihilistic drift of postmodernism (which nonetheless has roots in the outset of modernity) as a supreme opportunity. It does not like liberal theology transcendentalist theology and even certain styles of neo-orthodoxy seek in the face of this drift to shore up universal accounts of immanent human value (humanism) nor defences of supposedly objective reason. But nor does it indulge like so many in the pretence of a baptism of nihilism in the name of a misconstrued ‘negative theology’. Instead in the face of the secular demise of truth it seeks to reconfigure theological truth. The latter may indeed hover close to nihilism since it also refuses a reduction of the indeterminate. Yet what finally distances it from nihilism is its proposal of the rational possibility and the faith- fully perceived actuality. (SP)