Divine Enticement: Theological Seductions

by Karmen MacKendrick

Book Overview

Theology usually appears to us to be dogmatic, judgmental, condescending, maybe therapeutic, or perhaps downright fantastical-but seldom enticing. Divine Enticement takes as its starting point that the meanings of theological concepts are not so much logical, truth-valued propositions-affirmative or negative-as they are provocations and evocations. Thus it argues for the seductiveness of both theology and its subject-for, in fact, infinite seduction...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823242897
• ISBN13: 9780823242894
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 320 Pages