Bound to Differ: The Dynamics of Theological Discourses

In this analysis of theological conflict, Wesley Kort treats theologies as discourses that generate power and significance by their relations to and differences from one another. He identifies the traditional or putative claims of theological power and meaning—sources, referents, and patterns or structures—as distractions from or even concealments of the discursive situation in which theologies arise.

Kort first describes the dynamics of difference and conflicts constituted by theologies and...