Nicholas Adams

Habermas and Theology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book draws upon the work of Habermas to suggest a model for public religious debate.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9780521862660
• ISBN-10: 0521862663
• Artikelnr.: 22099939

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Adams is Senior Lecturer in Theology and Ethics at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Eclipse of Grace: Divine and Human Action in Hegel (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Religion in public
2. The ideal speech situation
3. Authority and distance in tradition
4. Sacred and profane
5. Universalism
6. Theology and political theory
7. Theology, social theory and rationalisation
8. Modernity's triumph over theology
9. Habermas in dialogue with theologians
10. Narrative and argument
11. Scriptural difference and scriptural reasoning.

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1. Religion in public; 2. The ideal speech situation; 3. Authority and distance in tradition; 4. Sacred and profane; 5. Universalism; 6. Theology and political theory; 7. Theology, social theory and rationalisation; 8. Modernity's triumph over theology; 9. Habermas in dialogue with theologians; 10. Narrative and argument; 11. Scriptural difference and scriptural reasoning.

Rezensionen

'This clear, cogent, well-documented book has a value beyond providing a judicious assessment of the strengths and weaknesses in the thought of a major contemporary philosopher.' The Heythrap Journal