Since the 1980s, a group of American and British theologians, but also of German and other nationalities, started to retrieve with renewed vigour the project of situating theological and Christian reflection at the centre of the contemporary intellectual scene. The context could hardly have been more favourable. Philosophy, often theology’s arch-rival, seemed to have entered a process of self-dissolution. By the mid-eighties it became a common place to level the status differences between
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