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Theology as Improvisation: A Study in the Musical Nature of Theological Thinking: 13
Author(s): Nathan Crawford (Author)
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: 14 Feb. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 268 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004245960
- ISBN-13: 9789004245969
Book Description
In Theology as Improvisation, Nathan Crawford reimagines the possibilities for how theology thinks God within a postmodern world. He argues that theology is improvisation by analyzing the nature of attunement within theological thinking and how this opens certain possibilities for theology. He does so by engaging a number of thinkers, including Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, David Tracy, and Saint Augustine. He navigates the nature of thinking God in a postmodern world by using these thinkers to offer critiques of onto-theological thinking and totalizing systems while also following their embrace of the fragment and focus upon the nature of thinking as attunement. The result is a unique way of approaching theological thinking in our contemporary context.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Nathan Crawford is attuned to contemporary philosophical and theological trends and invites reconsideration of the theological task according to the improvisational character discernible in historical and contemporary exemplars. Even those uncomfortable with the theological open-endedness nurtured by his proposal can counter-argue their case only by attunement to and improvisational engagement with the rhythms, movements, and cadences of this excellent first book.
Amos Yong, J. Rodman Williams Professor of Theology, Regent University, Virginia Beach, USA
Amos Yong, J. Rodman Williams Professor of Theology, Regent University, Virginia Beach, USA
About the Author
Nathan Crawford, Ph.D. (2011), Loyola University Chicago, ministers in the United Methodist Church. He taught at Wesley Seminary, Indiana Wesleyan University, and Loyola University Chicago. He has published many articles and edited The Continuing Relevance of Wesleyan Theology (Pickwick 2011).
