Habermas and Theology

Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 12
Part 1 The Theological Reception and Critique of Habermas’s Work in the First Two Phases of Its View of Religion......Page 16
1. Systematic Theology Oriented Towards Christian Praxis......Page 18
2. Practical Theology and Its Subdisciplines......Page 29
3. Theory of Religious Education......Page 36
4. Theological Ethics......Page 40
Part 2 Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Reason in Philosophical Debate......Page 50
1. Language as an Alternative to the Dualisms of the Philosophy of Consciousness......Page 54
2. Objections from Philosophers of Subjectivity......Page 57
1. Habermas’s Concept of Metaphysics......Page 68
2. Questions Regarding Its Adequacy......Page 69
3. Modern Understandings of Metaphysics......Page 72
4. (Post)metaphysical Thinking and Theology......Page 75
4 Postmetaphysical Philosophy as Stand-in and as Interpreter......Page 78
1. The Role of Stand-in for Universalistic Questions in the Individual Sciences......Page 79
2. From Judge to Interpreter......Page 86
1. Core Concepts and Steps of Habermas’s Argument......Page 92
2. Recognition as What? Albrecht Wellmer’s Critique......Page 100
6 The Motivation for Agency and the Aporias of Morality......Page 106
1. Agency and Its Motivation......Page 107
2. The Scope of Recognition and the Aporetics of Moral Action......Page 114
Part 3 The Current Phase: Cooperation and Translation in Theological Debate......Page 120
1. Genealogy and Translation......Page 122
2. Genetics and the Ability to be a Self......Page 127
8 Religious Resources for the Project of Modernity in Theological Debate......Page 143
1. Freedom as the Ability to Say No: Creation versus Emanation......Page 144
2. Religious Resources in Postsecular Democracy......Page 146
3. Translation as a Cooperative Task......Page 153
Conclusion......Page 172
Notes......Page 174
Bibliography......Page 202
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