Books by Gavin Hyman

About the Contributor(s):Gavin Hyman is Lecturer in the Department of Politics, Philosophy, and Religion at the University of Lancaster, UK. He is author of The Predicament of Postmodern Theology (2001) and A Short History of Atheism (2010), and editor of New Directions in Philosophical Theology (2004).

About the Contributor(s):Gavin Hyman is Lecturer in the Department of Politics, Philosophy, and Religion at the University of Lancaster, UK. He is author of The Predicament of Postmodern Theology (2001) and A Short History of Atheism (2010), and editor of New Directions in Philosophical Theology (2004).

Gavin Hyman explores in depth two antithetical schools of postmodern theology--the "radical orthodoxy" of John Milbank and the "nihilist textualism" of Don Cupitt. Hyman critiques Milbank's influential project from a postmodern perspective, and then points out the major difficulties with Cupitt's approach. Finally, he explores the work of Mark...