Making Faith One's Own: Kevin Hector's Defense of Modern Theology
In The Theological Project of Modernism, Kevin Hector of theUniversity of Chicago Divinity School offers a nuanced and timely defense ofwhat he sees as an unjustifiably maligned tradition in modern Christian theology. He focuses on what is commonly labeled the liberal or revisionist tradition, cente...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2016]
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Harvard theological review
Year: 2016, Volume: 109, Issue: 4, Pages: 637-649 |
| Review of: | The theological project of modernism (Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press, 2015) (Lockwood, Charles)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Protestant theology
/ Liberal theology
/ Faith
/ History 1700-2000
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality FA Theology KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDD Protestant Church |
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Book review
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| Summary: | In The Theological Project of Modernism, Kevin Hector of theUniversity of Chicago Divinity School offers a nuanced and timely defense ofwhat he sees as an unjustifiably maligned tradition in modern Christian theology. He focuses on what is commonly labeled the liberal or revisionist tradition, centered in its early stages on figures such as Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schleiermacher, G. W. F. Hegel, Albrecht Ritschl, Ernst Troeltsch, and, more recently, Paul Tillich. By carefully reconstructing key arguments from these thinkers, Hector shows not only how this trajectory hangs together as a tradition, but also how its animating impulse differs from what many critics have assumed. Hector's central claim is that this tradition is fundamentally concerned with a distinctive problem, namely, how to relate religious faith to a sense of one's life as one's own - or, put differently, how one's faith can be self-expressive. Hector labels this the problem of mineness, or the problem of how persons could identify with their lives or experience them as 'mine,' especially given their vulnerability to tragedy, injustice, luck, guilt, and other 'oppositions' (viii). Hector argues that for his chosen thinkers in this tradition, faith - more specifically, faith in a God who is able to reconcile such oppositions - plays a crucial role in resolving this problem. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816016000316 |