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2000 Years and Beyond: Faith, Identity, and the 'Common Era'
Contributor(s): Archard, David (Editor), Hart, Trevor A. (Editor), Rapport, Nigel (Editor)

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 ISBN: 0415278082     ISBN-13: 9780415278089
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE: $21.80  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2002
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"2000 Years and Beyond" brings together some of the most eminent thinkers of our time-specialists in philosophy, theology, anthropology and cultural theory - to ask the strategic questions surrounding the millennium that others never thought to.
These seven controversial and visonary new essays from Paul Ricoeur, Rene Girard, Jurgen Moltmann and Jean and John Comaroff, ask: How do we tell - and how do we rewrite - the story of the Common Era? Introduced by Paul Gifford, and discussed in a lively dialogic conclusion, they add their distinctive voices to a debate of profound and urgent topicality.
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | History
- Religion | Cults
Dewey: 200.905
LCCN: 2002075160
Physical Information: 0.53" H x 8.42" W x 6.26" L (0.66 lbs) 240 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
 
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2000 Years and Beyond brings together some of the most eminent thinkers of our time - specialists in philosophy, theology, anthropology and cultural theory. In a horizon-scanning work, they look backwards and forwards to explore what links us to the matrix of the Judaeo-Christian tradition from which Western cultural identity has evolved.
Their plural reflections raise searching questions about how we move from past to future - and about who 'we' are. What do the catastrophes of the twentieth century signify for hopes of progress? Can post - Enlightment humanism and its notion of human nature survive without faith? If the 'numinous magic global capitalism' is our own giant shadow cast abroad, does that shadow offer hope enough of a communal future? Has the modern, secularized West now outgrown its originating faith matrix?
Often controversial and sometimes visionary, these seven new essays ask: how do we tell - and rewrite - the story of the Common Era? Introduced by Paul Gifford, and discussed in a lively dialogic conclusion, they add their distinctive voices to a debate of profound and urgent topicality.
 
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