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Weaving together culture, history, and theology, this book aims to bring lively Christian teachings from past generations into conversations with the present.

Pugh is Professor of Religious Studies at Elon College in North Carolina. He is keenly interested in the intersection of culture and faith.

Preface

ix

Unplugging From the Matrix: Waking Up to the New World

1

(27)

Getting Here from There

5

(4)

Reality Isn't What It Used to Be

9

(4)

Voices of Suspicion

13

(4)

Knowing in the Postmodern World

17

(2)

Did You Hear the One About ...? Narratives and Their Constructions

19

(4)

What Is the Story We Are Writing?

23

(2)

Does Christianity Have a Future?

25

(3)

Searching for Myself: Augustine and Postmodern Identity

28

(26)

Living in the Material World

30

(10)

Augustine and the Search for the Self

40

(6)

We Are Spirits, Living in the Material World

46

(8)

Thinking About the Unthinkable: Anselm and the Quest for God

54

(18)

Anselm's Journey

57

(3)

Revisiting the Argument

60

(4)

Barth's Interpretation of Anselm

64

(3)

Anselm's Vision for Us

67

(5)

Creation Calling: Thomas Aquinas and Ecological Cosmology

72

(22)

Moving God to the Margins

75

(4)

Thomas Aquinas and God's World

79

(9)

Does Creation Have a Voice?

88

(6)

Living Into Our Story: Luther and the Bible

94

(25)

Struggling for Grace ---Luther and the Text

101

(8)

Building a Habitation

109

(10)

Can We Ever Interpret Another? Friedrich Schleiermacher and the Art of Understanding

119

(21)

The Hermeneutics of Suspicion

123

(2)

A New Theology: Friedrich Schleiermacher

125

(7)

The Hermeneutics of Understanding

132

(4)

Toward Understanding the Religions

136

(4)

Suffering With God: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Postmodern Theology

140

(24)

For This Moment: Bonhoeffer's Life

142

(4)

What Is Theology for Us Today?

146

(8)

Bonhoeffer's Promise for Postmodernity

154

(10)

Tradition as Critique: Karl Barth's Protest of Nazi Ideology

164

(28)

NO!

167

(2)

Barth's Journey to the Far Country

169

(4)

Dissonant Sounds: Theology and Political Power

173

(7)

Against the Tide: Christianity against the Status Quo

180

(5)

Traditioning Faith

185

(7)

Re-Membering: Out of the Matrix and Back into the Body

192

(21)

Out of the Matrix

193

(9)

Back into the Body

202

(11)

Notes

213

(8)

Index

221

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