Theology After Liberalism Classical and Contemporary Readings

by Webster, John; Schner, George P.

• ISBN13: 9780631205630
• ISBN10: 0631205632
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-04-07
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This Reader brings together texts which articulate or debate with the mode of theology most commonly identified as "post-liberal". It provides an introduction to this major contemporary theological option for students of systematic theology.The wide sampling of theological writing represented here seeks to move beyond the dominant conventions of modern theology, by retrieving aspects of the classical Christian tradition and exploring its potential for creative and constructive theology in the modern context.The volume, introduced by two substantial editorial essays, is divided into three sections. First, there are readings which treat major doctrinal areas as they have been handled by 'post-liberal' theologians. Second, there are readings which treat issues of the methods, norms and sources of theology. Third, there are critiques of 'post-liberal' theology from a variety of perspectives. Each reading is introduced and contextualized by the editors.

Author Biography

John Webster is Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. Previously he was Ramsay Armitage Professor of Systematic Theology at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto. His previous books include Barth's Moral Theology (1997), Barth's Ethics of Reconciliation (1995), The Possibilities of Theology (1994), and Eberhard Jungel (1986).

George Schner teaches at Regis College, Toronto. His previous publications include Education for Ministry (1993), and two edited works, Ignatian Spirituality in a Secular Age (1984) and The Church Renewed (1986); he is currently preparing a book on the philosophical foundations of the search for the historical Jesus.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Preface	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Part I Introduction
Metaphors for Theology	3	(49)
George P. Schner
Theology after Liberalism?	52	(13)
John Webster
Part II Doctrines
Identity Description and Jesus Christ	65	(22)
Hans Frei
The Triune God: The Perichoresis of Particular Persons	87	(26)
William Placher
The Atonement and the Triune God	113	(19)
Colin Gunton
Freedom and Reality	132	(20)
Oliver O'Donovan
Theology in Dialogue	152	(35)
J. Augustine DiNoia
Part III Methods
Beyond the Hermeneutical Deadlock	187	(17)
James J. Buckley
Tradition and the Tacit	204	(19)
Andrew Louth
Self-Critical Cultures and Divine Transcendence	223	(34)
Kathryn Tanner
Depth of Self-Awareness and Breadth of Vision: Joining Reflection and Interpretation	257	(48)
Frans Jozef van Beeck
Part IV Criticisms
Feminist Theology: Language, Gender and Power	305	(16)
Mary McClintock Fulkerson
Postmodern Theology and the Judgement of the World	321	(14)
Rowan Williams
The Uneasy Alliance Reconceived: Catholic Theological Method, Modernity and Postmodernity	335	(26)
David Tracy
Part V Afterword
Toward a Postliberal Theology	361	(26)
George A. Lindbeck
Index	387