Varieties of Postmodern TheologyThis book sorts out the confusion created by the use of the term "postmodern" in relation to widely divergent theological positions. Four different types of postmodern theology are distinguished in the preface: constructive, deconstructive, liberationist, and conservative. Two forms of each type are discussed in the book. Writing from a constructive, postmodern perspective, the authors enter into dialogue with the deconstructive postmodernism of Mark C. Taylor and Jean-François Lyotard, with the liberationist postmodernism of Harvey Cox and Cornel West, and with the conservative postmodernism of George William Rutler and John Paul II. |
Contents
Varieties | 1 |
The Postmodern Paradigm | 9 |
Postmodern Theology | 81 |
Postmodern Dialogue | 95 |
Liberation Theology | 129 |
Cornel Wests Postmodern Theology | 149 |
Notes on Authors and Centers | 157 |
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Varieties of Postmodern Theology David Ray Griffin,William A. Beardslee,Joe Holland Limited preview - 1989 |
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a/theology actual affirm Alfred North Whitehead antimodern Beardslee belief biblical called causal efficacy Christ Christian classical Catholic consciousness Cornel West creation creativity critical critique David Ray Griffin deconstructive denial deny divine doctrine dualism ecological eliminative postmodernism essay exist faith feminine human Ibid ideas ideologies interpretation Jean-François Lyotard Jesus Joe Holland John Paul late modern liberation theology Lyotard Marxism meaning metaphysics mode modern culture modern theology modern world modern worldview moral movement narrative nature nihilism norms notion occasions of experience paradigm perception perspective philosophy postmodern Christian postmodern philosophy postmodern theology postmodern thought postmodern vision postmodern world pragmatic premodern Press presupposed Process and Reality process theology refer rejection relation religion religious revisionary postmodernism root metaphor scientific secular sense simply social society spiritual story structure Taylor theologians theory thereby things tion tradition transcendence truth as correspondence type of postmodern University West West's Whitehead