Foucault and Theology

Jonathan Tran is Assistant Professor of Theological Ethics at Baylor University, Waco, Texas. His book Theology and the Vietnam War: History, Memory, and Redemption is forthcoming in the Blackwell series "Challenges in Contemporary Theology"

Foucault and Theology is valuable as a serious attempt to come to terms with the implications for theological thinking of Foucault's later concerns with biopower and care of the self. And the book not only points to a new theological approach to Foucault, but points to significant possibilities of contem-porary Christian practices of the self, which take as their point of departure Foucault's analysis of worldly power.

• Introduction (7,000 words); Part One: The Birth of the Self; 1. Secular Saint: Paul-Michel Foucault's Biography (9,000 words); 2. Kant or Nietzsche?: Foucault's Sources (9,000 words); 3. Ontologies in Conflict: Theological Caricatures of Foucault (8,000 words); Part II: The Care of the Self; 4. Genealogy, Time, & Subjectivity (9,000 words); 5. Ordering Knowledge and Being: A/Theology (9,000 words); 6. "2,000 Years and No New Gods": The Church and Power (9,000 words); Part III: The Self's Pleasure in God; 7. Scripting the Self: St. Anthony and Foucault (9,000 words); 8. Sacrificing the Self: Augustine and Foucault (9,000 words); Conclusion (3,000 words); Acknowledgements, Table of Contents, Index (2,000 words).