The trial of the witnesses: the rise and decline of postliberal theology
Genesis of a concept : postliberalism and its opponents -- Preparation, 1945-54 -- Exploring new directions at Yale, 1955-64 -- A tendency takes shape, 1965-74 -- The Yale school before postliberalism, 1975-84 -- The crystallization and contentious reception of postliberalism, 1985-94 -- The decline...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Malden, Mass. [u.a.]
Blackwell
2006
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| In: | Year: 2006 |
| Edition: | 1. publ. |
| Series/Journal: | Challenges in contemporary theology
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Theology
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| Further subjects: | B
Postliberal Theology
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Contributor biographical information Publisher description Table of contents |
| Summary: | Genesis of a concept : postliberalism and its opponents -- Preparation, 1945-54 -- Exploring new directions at Yale, 1955-64 -- A tendency takes shape, 1965-74 -- The Yale school before postliberalism, 1975-84 -- The crystallization and contentious reception of postliberalism, 1985-94 -- The decline of postliberalism : 1995 to the present -- The goal of the present work -- George Lindbeck : theology and the ecclesial people of witness -- Orthodoxy and society after Christendom -- Community definition by grammatical rules -- The truth of the people of witness -- A new theology for the ecclesial text -- Hans Frei : theology and the christological object of witness -- Concreteness and identity in the christological object -- Christology and biblical hermeneutics -- Negotiating perspectives on the christological object -- The generosity of orthodoxy as an issue of method -- Lindbeck : elusive oppositions and the construction of postliberalism -- The conceptual scaffolding of the liberal-postliberal dualism -- Ecclesiology and the verbum externum -- Liberalism as experiential-expressivism -- Intratextuality -- Temptations of opposition -- Frei : elusive oppositions and the construction of postliberalism -- The mystery of the christological object and types of theology -- The typology -- Dogmatics and apologetics : a zero-sum game? -- Systematic versus ad hoc : the case of David Tracy -- Systematic versus ad hoc : the irreducible mystery and the lessons of correlation -- The trial of the witnesses : the Yale thinkers after postliberalism -- Fashioning an |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-292) and index |
| Physical Description: | XVI, 296 S., 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 1-4051-3295-7 1-4051-3296-5 978-1-4051-3295-4 978-1-4051-3296-1 |
