Going Public with the Means of Grace: A Homiletical Theology of Promise for Word and Sacrament in a Post-secular age
This article articulates a revisionist homiletical theology of Word and Sacrament for a disestablished church in a disenchanted, post-secular world. Its understanding of the post-secular context, an age of religious resurgence nonetheless impacted by the secular, is grounded in Charles Taylor's...
| Published in: | Theology today |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
[2018]
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Theology today
Year: 2018, Volume: 75, Issue: 3, Pages: 371-382 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CH Christianity and Society KDD Protestant Church RC Liturgy RE Homiletics |
| Further subjects: | B
Theology
B Charles Taylor B Promise B Richard Kearney B Preaching B Word and sacrament B Post-secularism |
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| Summary: | This article articulates a revisionist homiletical theology of Word and Sacrament for a disestablished church in a disenchanted, post-secular world. Its understanding of the post-secular context, an age of religious resurgence nonetheless impacted by the secular, is grounded in Charles Taylor's analysis of the Reformation as an engine of cultural change even today: disenchantment, shared vocation, and the "affirmation of the ordinary." In this context, it seeks to revise Protestant notions of the gospel as promise in the direction of Richard Kearney's onto-eschatological vision in The God Who May Be. Such a notion of promise, connected to Kearney's "traversing presence" yet embracing its possibilizing force, pushes against attempts to re-trench and reenchant, as in some postliberal and radical orthodox theologies, in favor of a more apologetic public theology of Word and Sacrament. |
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| ISSN: | 2044-2556 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology today
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0040573618791739 |