This title presents a look at how Nietzsche's most generative and provocative ideas are also deeply theological and continue to have relevance in teaching Christians how to be Christians in the world today.Over a century ago, Nietzsche famously declared the death of God, but this has hardly kept Christian theologians from making positive use of this 'master of suspicion'."Nietzsche and Theology" displays how his most generative and provocative ideas are also deeply theological and continue to teach Christians how to be Christians in the world in which they find themselves. Hovey highlights the constructive contributions that can emerge from receptively meeting Nietzsche as modernity's philosophical other. Unchained from resenting Nietzsche's 'philosophical hammer', such encounters will surely reward those who journey into the far country of Nietzsche's Christianity. "Nietzsche and Theology" is ideally suited to students in theology and professional theologians who have a working knowledge of philosophy and philosophical theology, but who have not faced Nietzsche in theological debate or grappled with him as a specific resource.

A look at how Nietzsche's most generative and provocative ideas are also deeply theological and continue to have relevance in teaching Christians how to be Christians in the world today.

About the Author
Craig Hovey (Ph.D., University of Cambridge) is a writer in theology and ethics living in California. His articles have appeared in the Scottish Journal of Theology, Theology Today, and Studies in Christian Ethics.

Reviews
'Hovey's treatment of Nietzsche is sympathetic, serious and challenging; it provokes and deserves respect and attention.' Christopher Insole, Lecturer in Theology and Ethics, University of Durham, UK
Mention -Book News, February 2009
A book that pays attention to Nietzsche's meaning for theology is more than welcome... Hovey shows us the most important items of Nietzsche's philosophy. -- Journal of Reformed Theology 4
'[The author's] fresh and creative work is certain to stimulate the Dionysian muse of any reader interested in theology in the postmodern context.'-The Thomist



Book Information
ISBN 9780567031525
Author Craig Hovey
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint T.& T.Clark Ltd
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 252g