1st Edition

A Theology of the Sublime

By Clayton Crockett Copyright 2001
    156 Pages
    by Routledge

    156 Pages
    by Routledge

    A Theology of the Sublime is the first major response to the influential and controversial Radical Orthodoxy movement.
    Clayton Crockett develops a constructive radical theology from the philosophy of Immanuel Kant - a philosophy attacked by Radical Orthodoxy - to show Kant's relevance to postmodern philosophy and contemporary theology.

    Introduction; Kantian critical philosophy as theology; On modern sublimity: the challenge of Radical Orthodoxy; Ontology and linguistics: Heidegger and Lyotard; Temporality, subjectivity and imagination: Kant avec Deleuze; The Analytic of the Sublime; The transcendental imagination; Towards a theology of the sublime

    Biography

    Clayton Crockett is Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Religious Thought at the College of William and Mary, USA. He is the editor of Secular Theology: American Radical Theological Thought, also published by Routledge, and is managing editor of the online Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory.