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Desiring Theology

By: Charles E. Winquist

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Hardcover | 15 February 1995 | Edition Number 1

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One of the foremost scholars exploring the intersection of theology and continental philosophy, Charles E. Winquist argues for the possibility of theological thinking in a postmodern secular milieu. Moving beyond the now familiar reiteration of postmodernity's losses--the death of God, the displacement of the self, the end of history, the closure of the Book--Winquist equates a desire to think theologically with a desire, amidst postmodernity's disappointments, for a thinking that does not disappoint. To desire theology in this sense is to desire to know an "other" in and of language that can be valued in the forming of personal and communal identity. In this book, "desiring theology" carries another sense as well, for Winquist argues that, in the wake of psychoanalysis, theology must elaborate the meaning and importance of desire in its own discourse.
Winquist's work is tactical as well as theoretical, showing what kind of work theology can do in a postmodern age. He suggests that theology is closely akin to what Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari refer to as a minor intensive use of a major language. The minor intensive theological use of language, Winquist argues, pressures the ordinary weave of discourse and opens it to desire. Thus theology becomes a work against "the disappointment of thinking." Deeply engaged with the work of Nietzsche, Derrida, Tillich, Robert P. Scharlemann, and Mark C. Taylor, among others, this book is a significant addition to contemporary theology.

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Non-Fiction Religion & Beliefs Christianity Christian Theology Society & Culture Cultural Studies Aspects of Religion for Non-Christians Theology Miscellaneous Items

Preface
The Exigency of Theological Thinking
Beginnings
The Incorrigibility of Mind and Transcendental Method
The Incorrigibility of the Body and the Refiguring of Discourse
Theological Text Production
Theological Surfaces: Heterology, Ontology, and Eschatology
Interventions
Theological Singularities: Following and Erring
Theology as a Minor Literature
Desiring Community
Index
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