Speaking of God

by Long, D. Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780802845726
• ISBN10: 080284572X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-21
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

In this theological tour de force D. Stephen Long addresses a key question in current theological debate: the conditions of the possibility of "God-talk," along with attending questions about natural theology, fideism, and theological truth-claims. He engages not only the most significant contemporary theologians and philosophers on this score (Denys Turner, Bruce Marshall, Charles Taylor, Fergus Kerr) but also the legacy of twentieth-century theology (Barth, von Balthasar) and the analytic philosophical tradition from Wittgenstein to Davidson. Throughout, Long sustains a careful exegetical engagement with Aquinas, showing that what's at stake in contemporary theology is just how we inherit St. Thomas.

Author Biography

D. Stephen Long is professor of systematic theology at Marquette University. Among his other books are Divine Economy: Theology and the Market and The Goodness of God: Theology, Church, and the Social Order.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Speaking of God in Modernity	p. 21
Fideism	p. 24
Projectionist Theological Language	p. 36
Ontotheology	p. 50
Analogia entis	p. 55
Faith and Reason	p. 83
Modern Theology's Discontents	p. 85
Barthian Fideism?	p. 93
Neoscholastic Rationalism?	p. 110
Faith and Its Reasons	p. 115
Formal and Material Aspects of Faith and Reason	p. 123
God Is ... Triune	p. 135
Theology: The Divine Name	p. 149
Negative Theology?	p. 150
The Divine Name(s)	p. 163
Divine Names between Univocal and Equivocal Predication	p. 171
Divine Names: Modus Significandi/Res Significata	p. 174
Divine Names: Negation, Affirmation, Via Eminentiae	p. 176
Divine Names: Christ Is the Via Eminentiae	p. 177
The Loss of the Divine Names and Speaking Well of God	p. 180
The Hellenization Thesis	p. 183
The End of Metaphysics	p. 185
Historical-Critical Readings of the Divine Name	p. 187
Augustine, Dionysius, and Aquinas on the Divine Names	p. 193
Thomas's Five Ways and the Way of Jesus	p. 199
The Five Ways among Theology's Discontents	p. 207
Language	p. 215
Metaphysics versus Metaphysical Use	p. 217
The Linguistic Overturn of Metaphysics	p. 228
Conflicting Interpretations of Wittgenstein	p. 234
Aquinas's Higher Discipline	p. 238
Methodological Nominalism	p. 244
Truth	p. 261
The Politics of Truth	p. 263
The Truth of Politics	p. 268
Truth as Inevitably Metaphysical	p. 279
Must We Be Fallibilists?	p. 285
Truth, Generosity, and Love	p. 293
Truth, Love, and Mary	p. 298
What Is Truth? The Encounter between Jesus and Pilate	p. 323
Index Of Authors	p. 327
Index Of Subjects	p. 332
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