Does contemporary theology require a postfoundationalist way of knowing?

In his The Postfoundationalist Task of Theology, F. LeRon Shults recommends postfoundationalism as a via media between modernist foundationalism and postmodernist antifoundationalism. He advocates postfoundationalism as an epistemological approach which avoids the pitfalls on either side and provide...

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Main Author: Diller, Kevin (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2007
In: Scottish journal of theology
Year: 2007, Volume: 60, Issue: 3, Pages: 271-293
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