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  Christian Belief in a Postmodern World: The Full Wealth of Conviction

  by Diogenes Allen

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  After Theory

  by Terry Eagleton

  As heralded everywhere from NPR to the pages of the New York Times Magazine , a new era is underway in our colleges and universities: after a lengthy tenure, the dominance of postmodern theory has come to an end. In this timely and topical book, the legendary Terry Eagleton ("one of <our> best-known public intellectuals."- Boston Globe ) traces the rise and fall of these ideas from the 1960s through the... (more)
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  Real Presences

  by George Steiner

  Can there be major dimensions of a poem, a painting, a musical compostion created in the absence of God? Or, is God always a real presence in the arts? Any new book by Steiner is an event according to Eva Hoffman of the New York Times.
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  Spiritual Theology

  by Diogenes Allen

  The author turns to the great teachers of the past--Augustine, Maximus the Confessor, Bonaventure, Hugh of St. Victor, Calvin and Luther, George Herbert--to recover a spirituality that is rich with the doctrines and disciplines of theology.
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  Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics : The Realm of Metaphysics in Antiquity (Balthasar, Hans Urs Von//Glory of the Lord)

  by John Kenneth Riches

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  The Beauty Of The Infinite: The Aesthetics Of Christian Truth

  by David Bentley Hart

  "The Beauty of the Infinite" is a splendid extended essay in "theological aesthetics." David Bentley Hart here meditates on the power of a Christian understanding of beauty and sublimity to rise above the violence — both philosophical and literal — characteristic of the postmodern world. The book begins by tracing the shifting use and nature of metaphysics in the thought of Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger,... (more)
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  Figured Out: Typology and Providence in Christian Scripture

  by Christopher R. Seitz

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  A Theology of Compassion: Metaphysics of Difference and the Renewal of Tradition

  by Oliver Davies

  The wholesale rejection of metaphysics today has become the test of the postmodern. In this groundbreaking volume Oliver Davies argues for a renewal of metaphysics, as the language of createdness, based not in a return to outmoded concepts of essence but in a dynamic new understanding of ontology as narrative and performance. This repairing of the Western metaphysical tradition is grounded both in the divine... (more)