John Allan Knight

Liberalism versus Postliberalism (eBook, PDF)

The Great Divide in Twentieth-Century Theology

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Produktbeschreibung

The divide between liberal and postliberal theology is one of the most important and far-reaching methodological disputes in twentieth-century theology. Their divergence in method brought related differences in their approaches to hermeneutics and religious language. This split in the understanding of religious language is widely acknowledged, but rigorous philosophical analysis and assessment of it is seldom seen. Liberalism versus Postliberalism provides such analyses, using the developments in analytic philosophy of language over the past forty years. The book provides an original reading of the "theology and falsification" debates of the 1950s and 60s, and Knight's interpretation of the debates supplies a philosophical lens that brings into focus the centrality of religious language in the methodological dispute between liberal and postliberal theologians. Knight suggests that recent philosophical developments reveal problems with both positions and argues for a more inclusive method that takes seriously the aspirations of the debaters. His book makes an important contribution to contemporary theological method, to the understanding of liberal and postliberal theologies, and to our understanding of the role of analytic philosophy in contemporary theology and religious studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199969395
• Artikelnr.: 39934407

Autorenporträt

John Allan Knight is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Coordinator of the Catholic Studies Program at Marist College. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His essays have appeared in edited volumes and journals such as the Journal of Religion, the Scottish Journal of Theology and the American Journal of Theology and Philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

* Table of Contents
* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* Part One: Liberal Theology and the Falsification Challenge
* Chapter 1: Liberal Theology in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth
Centuries
* Chapter 2: The Falsification Challenge
* Chapter 3: The Liberal Response
* Chapter 4: A Purified Liberal Theology
* Part Two: Postliberal Theology and Ordinary Language Philosophy
* Chapter 5: The Barthian Project in Postliberal Perspective
* Chapter 6: Allies for Barth's Heirs: Wittgenstein and Ordinary
Language Philosophy
* Chapter 7: Earlier Postliberalism: Narrative Theology and Hans Frei's
Synthesis of Wittgenstein and Barth
* Chapter 8: Postliberalism II: George Lindbeck and Frei's Later Work
* Part Three: Problems and Prospects
* Chapter 9: A Tale of Two Dead Ends: The Linguistic Problems of
Liberal and Postliberal Theology
* Chapter 10: Conclusion: Navigating the Divide Between Liberal and
Postliberal Theology
* Bibliography