Kathryn Tanner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676669 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn Tanner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Tanner |
| SIGNATURE | TANNER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
AI and the Ends of Humanity
This essay serves as an introduction to a special themed issue on “AI and the Ends of Humanity,” and serves to highlight the distinctive features of this special issue. Much theological reflection on AI to date has focused on the question whether AI systems might acquire consciousness, personhood, and moral standing, on the ways in which AI is characterized in godlike terms, and on questions surrounding AI “alignment” and “ethical AI.” This speci…
How My Mind Has Changed on God's Noncontrastive Transcendence
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The Limits of Political Theology
Although the title, God, Evil and the Limits of Theology, might not suggest as much, the topic of political theology comes up repeatedly in this wonderfully lucid and engaging collection of essays
The Ambiguities of Transcendence
A Response to the Respondents
Christianity and the new spirit of capitalism
In his classic The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber famously showed how Christian beliefs and practices could shape persons in line with capitalism. In this significant reimagining of Weber's work, Kathryn Tanner provocatively reverses this thesis, arguing that Christianity can offer a direct challenge to the largely uncontested growth of capitalism. Exploring the cultural forms typical of the current finance-dominated sys…
Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism
The Ambiguities of Transcendence
Creation Ex Nihilo as Mixed Metaphor
This article makes the following three programmatic points. First, an understanding of divine transcendence, prominent in C hristian theology's apophatic strain, developed in tandem, both historically and logically, with ideas about creation that eventuated in a creation ex nihilo viewpoint. Such an account of divine transcendence, second, fosters an account of creation (and a general understanding of the G od/world relationship) that typically m…
Shifts in Theology Over the Last Quarter Century
Cultural Theory
The Oxford Handbook of Systematic Theology
Christ and Culture – By Graham Ward
Eschatology and Ethics
Eschatology, or the theology of last things, is a Christian doctrine with a rather direct bearing on ethical questions via its influence on psychological dispositions to act. Perhaps for this reason, eschatology is a major topic in much of contemporary Christian thought concerned with promoting social and political activism. What one believes about the end of things affects how one feels about the world in which one lives and one's attitude towar…
Feminist Theology
In the simplest terms, patriarchy describes a social organization in which power lies in the hands of the dominant man or men over and against ranks of others, especially women, who are subordinated to men's authority in the home, the church, and the public sphere. The sin of patriarchy brings with it its most faithful companion: sexism. One can analyse what has happened in feminist theologies of sin to date by observing how the doctrine of sin h…
The Depth of the Riches
Karl Barth
The Bible, Theology, and Faith
Converging On Culture
Theologians are increasingly looking to cultural analysis and criticism, rather than philosophy, as a dialogue partner for cross-disciplinary studies. This book explores the importance of this shift by bringing together scholars from a variety of theological perspectives to analyze different contemporary theories of culture and cultural movements. The essays here examine the theoretical relationship between theology and cultural studies and then …
The Religious Significance of Christian Engagement in the Culture Wars
The churches need to recover a sense for how their engagement in the culture wars involves them in fundamental religious disagreements. They also need to understand what is at stake in that engagement in a concrete enough way to allow for adjudication of the arguments pro and con on specifically religious grounds. The more discussion turns in these two directions, the more I believe the merits of a progressive position are likely to become appare…
The Trinity
Deus Trinitas
The Cambridge Companion to Karl Barth
This authoritative book introducing Karl Barth is written by leading scholars of his work, drawn from Europe and North America. They offer challenging yet accessible accounts of the major features of Barth's theological work, especially as it has become available through the publication of his collected works, and interact with the very best of contemporary Barth scholarship. The contributors also assess Barth's significance for contemporary cons…
Justification and Justice in a Theology of Grace
Divine Empathy
The Limits of Political Theology
Although the title, God, Evil and the Limits of Theology, might not suggest as much, the topic of political theology comes up repeatedly in this wonderfully lucid and engaging collection of essays
A Theological Case for Human Responsibility in Moral Choice
Respect for Other Religions
A Theological Case for Human Responsibility in Moral Choice
Mimetic Reflections
The Difference Theological Anthropology Makes
“Theology, on the basis of its understanding of God, proclaims the objective value of God's creatures, a value that must, therefore, be respected in the relations human beings establish with one another and with other kinds of beings in the world. A whole sociopolitical and ecological ethics can be developed from this starting point. ...”
Barth's Ethics of Reconciliation. John Webster
Divine Empathy
Scripture as Popular Text
The Gifting God
Justification and Justice in a Theology of Grace
The Cambridge Companion to Karl Barth
This authoritative book introducing Karl Barth is written by leading scholars of his work, drawn from Europe and North America. They offer challenging yet accessible accounts of the major features of Barth's theological work, especially as it has become available through the publication of his collected works, and interact with the very best of contemporary Barth scholarship. The contributors also assess Barth's significance for contemporary cons…
Converging On Culture
Theologians are increasingly looking to cultural analysis and criticism, rather than philosophy, as a dialogue partner for cross-disciplinary studies. This book explores the importance of this shift by bringing together scholars from a variety of theological perspectives to analyze different contemporary theories of culture and cultural movements. The essays here examine the theoretical relationship between theology and cultural studies and then …
The Religious Significance of Christian Engagement in the Culture Wars
The churches need to recover a sense for how their engagement in the culture wars involves them in fundamental religious disagreements. They also need to understand what is at stake in that engagement in a concrete enough way to allow for adjudication of the arguments pro and con on specifically religious grounds. The more discussion turns in these two directions, the more I believe the merits of a progressive position are likely to become appare…
The Trinity
Deus Trinitas
The Bible, Theology, and Faith
The Depth of the Riches
Karl Barth
Cultural Theory
The Oxford Handbook of Systematic Theology
Christ and Culture – By Graham Ward
Eschatology and Ethics
Eschatology, or the theology of last things, is a Christian doctrine with a rather direct bearing on ethical questions via its influence on psychological dispositions to act. Perhaps for this reason, eschatology is a major topic in much of contemporary Christian thought concerned with promoting social and political activism. What one believes about the end of things affects how one feels about the world in which one lives and one's attitude towar…
Feminist Theology
In the simplest terms, patriarchy describes a social organization in which power lies in the hands of the dominant man or men over and against ranks of others, especially women, who are subordinated to men's authority in the home, the church, and the public sphere. The sin of patriarchy brings with it its most faithful companion: sexism. One can analyse what has happened in feminist theologies of sin to date by observing how the doctrine of sin h…
Shifts in Theology Over the Last Quarter Century
Creation Ex Nihilo as Mixed Metaphor
This article makes the following three programmatic points. First, an understanding of divine transcendence, prominent in C hristian theology's apophatic strain, developed in tandem, both historically and logically, with ideas about creation that eventuated in a creation ex nihilo viewpoint. Such an account of divine transcendence, second, fosters an account of creation (and a general understanding of the G od/world relationship) that typically m…
The Ambiguities of Transcendence
Philosophy (27 works) · Theology (21 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (15 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · Christian Theology and Mission (12 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (11 works) · Religious studies (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works)