Interpreting God and the postmodern self : on meaning, manipulation and promise

SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY
	INTERPRETING GOD AND THE POSTMODERN SELF
	Contents
	Preface
	God as Self-Affirming Illusion? Manipulation, Truth and Language
	Postmodernism, Modernity and the Postmodern Self
	3
	Do All Controlling Models in Religion Serve Manipulative Purposes?
	4
	The Rhetoric of Theological Models and Currencies of Meaning
	5
	Language, Truth and Life in Theology and Postmodernity
	6
	Non-Manipulative Interpretation and Truth as Relational
	7
	Respecting the Other: Transcending Prior Categories and the Limits of Empirical Method
	8
	Biblical Texts and Pastoral Hermeneutics:
	History, Science and Personhood
	A Temporal Hermeneutic of the Self through the ‘Detour’ of Texts as ‘Other’
	Five Ways in which Textual Reading Interprets the Self
	Self-Deception and Sub-Text: Psychoanalysis, Suspicion and Conversation
	Self-Identity within the Temporal Logic of Narrative Plot
	The Sea of Faith Network: Interpreting God as a Human Construct
	Successive Stages in Cupitt’s Interpretations of God
	‘Taking Leave of God’ as Internalizing, De-objectifying and Autonomy
	Rehearsing an Over-played Script: ‘Facts’, World-Views and Divine Agency
	‘God’s Second Death’ in the Postmodern Self:
	An ‘Internalized’ God Now?
	Pluralism or Propaganda?
	The Forked Rhetoric of Postmodern Interpretation
	The Collapse of the Hope of the ‘Modern’ Self: From Active Agency to Passive Situatedness
	More Social Consequences of Postmodern Selfhood: Despair, Conflict and Manipulation
	Corporate Power and Corporate Self-Deception
	Present and Future:
	The Pluriform Grammar of Hope and the God of Promise
	Further Issues on ‘Interpreting God’: Christology and Trinity
	Will-to-Power De-centred, Transformed and Re-centred in Promise and Love
	Select Bibliography
	Index of Names and Subjects
	Index of Biblical References
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