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Preface | |
God as Self-Affirming Illusion? Manipulation, Truth and Language | p. 3 |
Postmodernism, Modernity and the Postmodern Self | p. 11 |
Do All Controlling Models in Religion Serve Manipulative Purposes? | p. 19 |
The Rhetoric of Theological Models and Currencies of Meaning | p. 27 |
Language, Truth and Life in Theology and Postmodernity | p. 33 |
Non-Manipulative Interpretation and Truth as Relational | p. 41 |
Respecting the Other: Transcending Prior Categories and the Limits of Empirical Method | p. 47 |
Biblical Texts and Pastoral Hermeneutics: History, Science and Personhood | p. 53 |
A Temporal Hermeneutic of the Self Through the 'Detour' of Texts as 'Other' | p. 59 |
Five Ways in which Textual Reading Interprets the Self | p. 63 |
Self-Deception and Sub-Text: Psychoanalysis, Suspicion and Conversation | p. 67 |
Self-Identity within the Temporal Logic of Narrative Plot | p. 73 |
The Sea of Faith Network: Interpreting God as a Human Construct | p. 81 |
Successive Stages in Cupitt's Interpretations of God | p. 87 |
'Taking leave of God' as Internalizing, De-objectifying and Autonomy | p. 93 |
Rehearsing an Over-played Script: 'Facts', World-Views and Divine Agency | p. 99 |
'God's Second Death' in the Postmodern Self: An 'Internalized' God Now? | p. 105 |
Pluralism or Propaganda? The Forked Rhetoric of Postmodern Interpretation | p. 111 |
The Collapse of the Hope of the 'Modern' Self: From Active Agency to Passive Situatedness | p. 121 |
More Social Consequences of Postmodern Selfhood: Despair, Conflict and Manipulation | p. 127 |
Corporate Power and Corporate Self-Deception | p. 137 |
Present and Future: The Pluriform Grammar of Hope and the God of Promise | p. 145 |
Further Issues on 'Interpreting God': Christology and Trinity | p. 153 |
Will-to-Power De-centred, Transformed and Re-centred in Promise and Love | p. 159 |
Select Bibliography | p. 165 |
Index of Names and Subjects | p. 173 |
Index of Biblical References | p. 179 |
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