Theology against Religion

This book asks the<br/>question 'what is religion?' from a theological perspective. In an age in which<br/>religion has reasserted itself on national and international stages <em>Theology against Religion</em> argues that we<br/>should take seriously the critique of religion and engage with that critique<br/>theologically. The book argues that theologizing the critique of religion was<br/>central to the theological purposes of Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer and<br/>that Barth and Bonhoeffer should be seen as traveling along the same<br/>trajectory in terms of their theological approaches to religion. It is this<br/>trajectory that this book seeks to explore in thinking with and beyond<br/>Bonhoeffer and by identifying a series of themes around which construction<br/>engagements can take place. The result is an exciting series of discussions<br/>which take seriously the interplay of the religious the secular pluralism and<br/>the concept of God with chapters on salvation the church the public square<br/>and other faiths.