Pragmatic Historicism

A Theology for the Twenty-first Century

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

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Presents a new option in theology, "pragmatic historicism" which emerges out of the historicist assumptions of recent Western thought and resists both confessionalism and universalism.Sheila Greeve Davaney develops a bold new option in theology and religious reflection-pragmatic historicism-which emerges out of the historicist assumptions of human situatedness, particularity, and plurality that have come to characterize Western thought. The major theological attempts by postliberal and revisionist theology to incorporate these insights have failed to contend fully with the historicist challenge; Davaney's pragmatic historicism more clearly repudiates essentialism, universalism, and confessionalism. The theology that emerges is constructive and critical, resisting all forms of confessionalism without resorting to new forms of universalism. In its academic mode, it is interpreted not in opposition to religious studies, but as one subdiscipline within the study of religion whose major concerns are the identification, analysis, and critical reconstruction of religious ideas. As such it is a form of cultural analysis and criticism. The work includes a detailed exploration of the thought of philosophical pragmatists Richard Rorty, Cornel West, and Jeffrey Stout, and theologians Sallie McFague, John B. Cobb Jr., Gordon Kaufman, Delwin Brown, and William Dean, among others.

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Utgivningsdatum2000-09-22
Mått152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt327 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor223
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791446942

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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

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