Sheila Greeve Davaney is Professor of Theology at Iliff School of Theology. She has published many works, including most recently Horizons in Feminist Theology: Identity, Tradition, and Norms.

• Preface Acknowledgments 1. Histories and Contexts Preliminary RemarksPluralistic ModernityDirections in and Challenges to Twentieth-Century TheologyEmergent HistoricismCurrent Historicist Theological Options 2. Theological Roads Not Taken Preliminary RemarksGeorge Lindbeck and PostliberalismDavid Tracy and Revisionist TheologyToward Pragmatic Historicism 3. Historicism and Human Worldviews Assumptions and TheoriesConversation PartnersCosmological and Anthropological PresuppositionsConcluding Comments 4. Theology in a Historicist PerspectivePreliminary CommentsHistoricist Theology as Imaginative ConstructionHistoricist Theology as Metaphorical ElaborationToward a More Consistent HistoricismA Pragmatic Historicism 5. Philosophical Fellow Travelers: Rorty, Stout, and West Philosophical PragmatismRichard RortyJeffrey StoutCornel West 6. Conclusion: Beyond Luck and Weapons The Move to Normative JudgmentsRevisiting the Relation of Past and PresentProcedural Pragmatism: Reentering the Public ArenaIn the Face of Multiple VoicesThe Content of Pragmatic NormsTragedy and Hope Notes Bibliography Index

"By not going down the road of either postliberal or revisionist thinking, Davaney's theology emerges as an exciting new way of doing theology: a theology that seriously confronts theological pluralism, and a theology that transcends the extremes of foundationalism and relativist forms of nonfoundationalism." — J. Wentzel van Huyssteen, author of The Shaping of Rationality: Toward Interdisciplinarity in Theology and Science"Davaney has done an impressive job in providing a clear and comprehensive overview of major currents in contemporary theology, and situating the alternatives against the backdrop of broader intellectual developments. She goes beyond depicting the contemporary theological scene to make a case for the identification of an emerging trajectory—pragmatic historicism—that deserves recognition and nurturing." — Linell E. Cady, author of Religion, Theology, and American Public Life

Sheila Greeve Davaney is Professor of Theology at Iliff School of Theology. She has published many works, including most recently Horizons in Feminist Theology: Identity, Tradition, and Norms.

• Preface Acknowledgments 1. Histories and Contexts Preliminary RemarksPluralistic ModernityDirections in and Challenges to Twentieth-Century TheologyEmergent HistoricismCurrent Historicist Theological Options 2. Theological Roads Not Taken Preliminary RemarksGeorge Lindbeck and PostliberalismDavid Tracy and Revisionist TheologyToward Pragmatic Historicism 3. Historicism and Human Worldviews Assumptions and TheoriesConversation PartnersCosmological and Anthropological PresuppositionsConcluding Comments 4. Theology in a Historicist PerspectivePreliminary CommentsHistoricist Theology as Imaginative ConstructionHistoricist Theology as Metaphorical ElaborationToward a More Consistent HistoricismA Pragmatic Historicism 5. Philosophical Fellow Travelers: Rorty, Stout, and West Philosophical PragmatismRichard RortyJeffrey StoutCornel West 6. Conclusion: Beyond Luck and Weapons The Move to Normative JudgmentsRevisiting the Relation of Past and PresentProcedural Pragmatism: Reentering the Public ArenaIn the Face of Multiple VoicesThe Content of Pragmatic NormsTragedy and Hope Notes Bibliography Index

"By not going down the road of either postliberal or revisionist thinking, Davaney's theology emerges as an exciting new way of doing theology: a theology that seriously confronts theological pluralism, and a theology that transcends the extremes of foundationalism and relativist forms of nonfoundationalism." — J. Wentzel van Huyssteen, author of The Shaping of Rationality: Toward Interdisciplinarity in Theology and Science"Davaney has done an impressive job in providing a clear and comprehensive overview of major currents in contemporary theology, and situating the alternatives against the backdrop of broader intellectual developments. She goes beyond depicting the contemporary theological scene to make a case for the identification of an emerging trajectory—pragmatic historicism—that deserves recognition and nurturing." — Linell E. Cady, author of Religion, Theology, and American Public Life

Sheila Greeve Davaney is Professor of Theology at Iliff School of Theology. She has published many works, including most recently Horizons in Feminist Theology: Identity, Tradition, and Norms.

• Preface Acknowledgments 1. Histories and Contexts Preliminary RemarksPluralistic ModernityDirections in and Challenges to Twentieth-Century TheologyEmergent HistoricismCurrent Historicist Theological Options 2. Theological Roads Not Taken Preliminary RemarksGeorge Lindbeck and PostliberalismDavid Tracy and Revisionist TheologyToward Pragmatic Historicism 3. Historicism and Human Worldviews Assumptions and TheoriesConversation PartnersCosmological and Anthropological PresuppositionsConcluding Comments 4. Theology in a Historicist PerspectivePreliminary CommentsHistoricist Theology as Imaginative ConstructionHistoricist Theology as Metaphorical ElaborationToward a More Consistent HistoricismA Pragmatic Historicism 5. Philosophical Fellow Travelers: Rorty, Stout, and West Philosophical PragmatismRichard RortyJeffrey StoutCornel West 6. Conclusion: Beyond Luck and Weapons The Move to Normative JudgmentsRevisiting the Relation of Past and PresentProcedural Pragmatism: Reentering the Public ArenaIn the Face of Multiple VoicesThe Content of Pragmatic NormsTragedy and Hope Notes Bibliography Index

"By not going down the road of either postliberal or revisionist thinking, Davaney's theology emerges as an exciting new way of doing theology: a theology that seriously confronts theological pluralism, and a theology that transcends the extremes of foundationalism and relativist forms of nonfoundationalism." — J. Wentzel van Huyssteen, author of The Shaping of Rationality: Toward Interdisciplinarity in Theology and Science"Davaney has done an impressive job in providing a clear and comprehensive overview of major currents in contemporary theology, and situating the alternatives against the backdrop of broader intellectual developments. She goes beyond depicting the contemporary theological scene to make a case for the identification of an emerging trajectory—pragmatic historicism—that deserves recognition and nurturing." — Linell E. Cady, author of Religion, Theology, and American Public Life