Carl Raschke
Autore di The Next Reformation: Why Evangelicals Must Embrace Postmodernity
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Carl A. Raschke is professor of religious studies at the University of Denver, specializing in continental philosophy, the philosophy of religion and the theory of religion. He is an internationally known writer and academic who has authored numerous books, including The Revolution in Religious mostra altro Theory, GloboChrist, The Next Reformation and The Engendering God. mostra meno
Opere di Carl Raschke
Painted Black: From Drug Killings to Heavy Metal : The Alarming True Story of How Satanism Is Terrorizing Our… (1990) 43 copie
Postmodernism and the Revolution in Religious Theory: Toward a Semiotics of the Event (2012) 8 copie
Force of God: Political Theology and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion,… (2015) 6 copie
The Interruption of Eternity: Modern Gnosticism and the Origins of the New Religious Consciousness (1979) 3 copie
The bursting of new wineskins : reflections on religion and culture at the end of affluence (1978) 2 copie
The Republic of Faith: The Search for Agreement Amid Diversity in American Religion (Religion in American Culture) (2002) 2 copie
"The Human Potential Movement" 1 copia
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- Sesso
- male
- Luogo di residenza
- Oklahoma, USA
- Istruzione
- Harvard University (Ph.D, Philosophy)
- Attività lavorative
- professor
- Organizzazioni
- American Academy of Religion
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- Opere
- 24
- Opere correlate
- 3
- Utenti
- 471
- Popolarità
- #52,267
- Voto
- 3.3
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 43
It would take a major essay to critique this book adequately. Good things: the survey of Western intellectual history; the summary and discussion of major intellectual figures: Luther, Calvin, Kant, Kierkegaard, Heidigger and others; the emphasis that systematic theology is not the essence of Christian faith. Bad things: the elevation of Derrida's views of language (he was a snake-oil salesman, in my view); he demonizes what his disagrees with; he uses rhetoric to inform the reader what conclusions to have without a rationale for those conclusions; he elevates the neo-charismatic religious experience and spontaneity as normative for Christian experience without providing reasons for the "modernist, foundationalist" evangelical to change his views.
After reading this book, I have a much more articulate understanding of why I reject so much of postmodernist polemic.… (altro)