This Companion provides a definitive collection of essays on postmodern theology, drawing on the work of those individuals who have made a distinctive contribution to the field, and whose work will be significant for the theologies written in the new millennium.

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• The definitive collection of essays on postmodern theology, drawing on the work of those individuals who have made a distinctive contribution to the field.
  
• Each essay is introduced with a short account of the writer's previous work, enabling the reader to view it in context.
  
• Discusses the following desciplines: Aesthetics, Ethics, Gender, Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, Heideggerians, and Derrideans.
  
• Edited by Graham Ward, one of the most outstanding and original theologians working in the field today.

• The Blackwell Companion to Postmodern Theology 6
  • Contents 10
  • List of Contributors 13
  • Introduction: “Where We Stand” 15
  • Part I Aesthetics 32
    • 1 Postmodern Theology as Cultural Analysis 34
    • 2 The Man Who Fell to Earth 55
    • 3 Communion and Conversation 79
    • 4 The Ends of Man and the Future of God 99
    • 5 “Lush Life”: Foucault’s Analytics of Power and a Jazz Aesthetic 110
  • Part II Ethics 136
    • 6 The Midwinter Sacrifice 138
    • 7 Postmodernity and Religious Plurality: Is a Common Global Ethic Possible or Desirable? 162
    • 8 The Christian Difference, or Surviving Postmodernism 175
    • 9 Justice and Prudence: Principles of Order in the Platonic City 193