Bloomsbury Habermas and Theology (Philosophy and Theology)

About the Author Maureen Junker-Kenny is Professor in Theology in the School of Religion, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland. Product Description Review Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\: *{behavior: url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name: "Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow: yes; mso-style-parent: ""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: #0400; mso-fareast-language: #0400; mso-bidi-language: #0400;} 'Ever since the pioneering Chicago symposium and 1992 collection of essays on Habermas and theology by Browning and Schussler Fiorenza, we have been waiting for a major interpretative work that bridges German and English language scholarship and debates on this leading European public intellectual. The time of waiting is now over. Maureen Junker-Kenny has written a finely grained interdisciplinary study of the highest order, expounding Habermas' thought with mastery and clarity and bringing it into fruitful conversation with her constructive theological concerns and criticisms. It could not be more timely. Here is the book to give the new global movement in public theology theoretical depth and conceptual rigour. I commend it to scholars and students alike in theology, philosophy, politics, and social theory, and to all who are concerned about the theological contribution in the Habermasian public sphere.' - William Storrar, Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, USA.--Sanford LakoffNormal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4st1\: *{behavior: url(#ieooui) }/* Style Definitions */table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name: "Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow: yes;mso-style-parent: "";mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;mso-para-margin:0cm;mso-para-margin-bottom: .0001pt;mso-pagination: widow-orphan;font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language: #0400;mso-fareast-language: #0400;mso-bidi-language: #0400;}'In this knowledgeable work, Junker-Kennyexamines the turn to religion in Habermas' latest work calling for a process ofmutual translation of religion and postsecular reason. She traces this back tohis early engagement with religion and the later chastening of religion indiscourse ethics. She lucidly presents the major philosophical objections tothe founding concepts of Habermas' reasoning, welcoming the called-for allianceof theology and postsecular reason against the 'pathologies ofmodernity'. The b