Depicting deity: a metatheological approach
"A theology aims to explicate the nature of God. A metatheology investigates more fundamental issues concerning how to structure such an intellectual endeavour, and where it should begin. Approaches that ignore this more fundamental investigation risk presupposing stances that do not withstand...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2021
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Edition: | First edition |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Fundamental theology
/ Hermeneutics
B Theology / Metatheory |
| IxTheo Classification: | NAB Fundamental theology |
| Further subjects: | B
Theology
B Religion Philosophy B Religion ; Philosophy B Philosophical Theology B God B Deism |
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| Summary: | "A theology aims to explicate the nature of God. A metatheology investigates more fundamental issues concerning how to structure such an intellectual endeavour, and where it should begin. Approaches that ignore this more fundamental investigation risk presupposing stances that do not withstand scrutiny, and perhaps would never have been endorsed if considered directly. Approaches that ignore the issue of fundamentality can also switch from one set of assumptions to another without noticing the change in perspective that results, giving rise to a chance of incoherence and an approach that is theoretically disorderly. This book begins with the more basic question of where to begin thinking about God and where it is best to start the project of theology. It does so in a way that offers some hope of a defensible metatheory from which a complete theology, displaying the kind of theoretical elegance and structure we find in our best scientific and philosophical theories, can be developed"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references ( pages [205]-217) and index |
| ISBN: | 0192896458 |