The Cambridge Companion To Postmodern Theology

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Contributors......Page 11
Preface......Page 15
Part one Types of postmodern theology......Page 19
PREFACE TO POSTMODERNITY: CONCEPT, CULTURE, OR CONDITION?......Page 21
The “arts and humanities” turn......Page 24
The “culture and society” turn......Page 25
The “philosophical and theoretical” turn......Page 26
A report on knowledge and belief......Page 27
Reason......Page 28
Self......Page 29
A report on language and life......Page 30
THE POSTMODERN CONDITION: THE CONFLICT OF DECRIPTIONS......Page 31
A new Copernican revolution......Page 32
An iconoclastic purge......Page 33
A recovery of “messianic” religion......Page 34
A refusal of Christian orthodoxy......Page 36
Postmodern typologies......Page 37
Deconstructing postmodernity? An alternative genealogy......Page 39
CONCLUSION – THEOLOGY AND THE POSTMODERN MISSION......Page 40
Pride and sloth: postmodernity as spiritual condition......Page 41
Evangelism and discipleship: postmodernity as sapiential condition......Page 42
Further reading......Page 43
WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO THINK THAT?......Page 44
CONSTRUCTING THE CARTESIAN THEATER......Page 45
MODERN THEOLOGY IN THE CARTESIAN THEATER......Page 48
SHOWING THE FLY THE WAY OUT OF THE BOTTLE......Page 49
CLOSING THE OMEGA......Page 54
AN EMERGING THEOLOGY OF COMMUNAL PRACTICE......Page 57
Further reading......Page 59
3 Postliberal theology......Page 60
POSTLIBERALISM: TRUTH AS DETERMINED BY CRITICAL REALISM......Page 63
POSTLIBERALISM: DOCTRINE AS DETERMINED BY THE PRIMACY OF GOD......Page 68
POSTLIBERALISM: RELIGION AS DETERMINED BY CHRISTOCENTRISM......Page 71
Further reading......Page 75
4 Postmetaphysical theology......Page 76
Further reading......Page 93
5 Deconstructive theology......Page 94
Further reading......Page 109
ORIGINS......Page 110
THE QUESTIONS OF METAPHYSICS AND RATIONALITY......Page 113
OVERCOMING PROBLEMATIC MODERN ASSUMPTIONS......Page 115
FURTHER COMPARISON WITH THE DOMINANT IMAGE OF POSTMODERNISM......Page 120
POSTMODERN CHRISTIAN DOCTRINES......Page 121
THEOLOGY AND ETHICS......Page 124
Further reading......Page 126
7 Feminist theology......Page 127
BACKGROUND DEVELOPMENTS......Page 129
THE INSTABILITY OF THE FEMINIST THEOLOGICAL SUBJECT......Page 132
THE RUPTURING \"OUTSIDE\"......Page 135
FEMINIST THEOLOGY AND GENDER (TROUBLE?)......Page 137
GROWING EDGES......Page 139
BUT IS IT THEOLOGY?......Page 140
Further reading......Page 143
8 Radical orthodoxy......Page 144
MODERN TRANSCENDENTALISM: FORGETTING THEOLOGY AND POSTMODERN RECOVERY......Page 145
RADICAL ORTHODOXY: FOR AND AGAINST POSTMODERNITY......Page 147
WHAT IS RADICAL ORTHODOXY?......Page 148
RADICAL ORTHODOXY\'S TURN: CHRISTOLOGICAL FILLING OF SPACE AND TIME......Page 149
OVERCOMING METAPHYSICS......Page 151
Linguisticality of reason......Page 153
Ontological difference......Page 154
Existence over essence......Page 157
Priority of dialogue......Page 158
Sensuality of Knowledge......Page 161
CONCLUSION......Page 162
Further reading......Page 163
Part two Christian doctrine in postmodern perspective......Page 165
Protestantism: the eclipse of tradition?......Page 167
Biblical criticism: the eclipse of Scripture......Page 169
Tradition rehabilitated and become rationality: hermeneutics......Page 170
Scripture excommunicated and become textuality: grammatology......Page 173
SCRIPTURE AND TRADITION IN POSTMODERNITY......Page 175
The postmodern Bible: demythologizing exegesis......Page 176
“Ruled reading”: the ecclesial sense......Page 178
BEYOND POSTMODERNITY: THE RECOVERY OF THEOLOGY......Page 180
The theological recovery of tradition: the church as the work of the Spirit......Page 182
The theological recovery of Scripture: the Word as divine discourse......Page 183
CONCLUSION: LIMPING TOWARD BETHLEHEM......Page 184
A future for sola scriptura?......Page 185
A future for tradition?......Page 186
Further reading......Page 187
10 Theological method......Page 188
POSTMODERNITY AND MINIMIZING METHODOLOGY......Page 190
POSTMODERN THEOLOGY AND \"AD HOC\" PHILOSPHIZING......Page 194
POSTMODERN THEOLOGY AS HERMENEUTICAL......Page 196
POSTMODERN THEOLOGY AS A HERMENEUTICAL ARC......Page 199
11 The Trinity......Page 204
POSTMODERN INSIGHT FOR TRINITARIAN THOUGHT......Page 205
Relationality......Page 206
Difference......Page 208
Rhetoric......Page 210
Peace......Page 214
Personhood......Page 215
Practice......Page 217
CONCLUSION......Page 219
INTRODUCTION......Page 221
THE GOD–WORLD RELATION IN A NEW KEY......Page 222
PANENTHEISM AND ITS RESOURCES......Page 224
SIFTING GOD–WORLD METAPHORS......Page 226
BEHIND THE METAPHORS......Page 229
OTHER THEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS......Page 232
CONTRASTING PANENTHEISMS......Page 234
CONCLUSION......Page 235
INTRODUCTION......Page 237
THE DEATH OF THE SELF......Page 239
A THEOLOGICAL RESPONSE......Page 241
Vocation......Page 247
Fellowship......Page 249
Further reading......Page 252
I......Page 253
II......Page 254
III......Page 256
IV......Page 261
V......Page 266
15 Ecclesiology......Page 270
THE CONCEPT OF COMMUNITY IN CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT......Page 271
COMMUNITY AND THE CHURCH......Page 274
The constitution of the church......Page 275
Community and the biblical narrative......Page 276
THE CHURCH AS A \"MARKED\" COMMUNITY......Page 278
The marks of the church......Page 279
The church as the community of word and sacrament......Page 280
The creedal marks and the missional church......Page 282
Theological ecclesiology and the church visible/invisible......Page 284
Further reading......Page 286
16 Holy Spirit and Christian spirituality......Page 287
THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE CONTINGENCIES OF HISTORY: FOUR APPROACHES TO THE TASK......Page 289
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER AS A THEOLOGIAN OF THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR POSTMODERNITY......Page 291
The realization of the reality of Jesus Christ versus two spheres......Page 293
Realization as transformative conformation to Christ......Page 294
Differentiation: ultimate and penultimate......Page 295
The structure of responsible life......Page 297
A JEWISH POSTMODERN WISDOM......Page 298
A CHRISTIAN LOCUS COMMUNIS......Page 300
GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS AND LIFE-SHAPING PRACTICES: SOME NOTES......Page 303
Worship and prayer......Page 304
Interpreting Scripture......Page 305
Building communities......Page 306
Acting ethically......Page 307
Further reading......Page 308
Index......Page 309