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Pragmatic historicism : a theology for the twenty-first century / Sheila Greeve Davaney.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davaney, Sheila Greeve.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- History.
- Historicism.
- Pragmatism.
- Theology.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 223 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, [2000]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Histories and Contexts 1
- Pluralistic Modernity 4
- Directions in and Challenges to Twentieth-Century Theology 14
- Emergent Historicism 22
- Current Historicist Theological Options 26
- Chapter 2 Theological Roads Not Taken 29
- George Lindbeck and Postliberalism 30
- David Tracy and Revisionist Theology 41
- Toward Pragmatic Historicism 48
- Chapter 3 Historicism and Human Worldviews 51
- Assumptions and Theories 51
- Conversation Partners 56
- Cosmological and Anthropological Presuppositions 64
- Chapter 4 Theology in a Historicist Perspective 81
- Preliminary Comments 81
- Historicist Theology as Imaginative Construction 82
- Historicist Theology as Metaphorical Elaboration 90
- Toward a More Consistent Historicism 99
- A Pragmatic Historicism 111
- Chapter 5 Philosophical Fellow Travelers: Rorty, Stout, and West 119
- Philosophical Pragmatism 119
- Richard Rorty 119
- Jeffrey Stout 129
- Cornel West 141
- Chapter 6 Conclusion: Beyond Luck and Weapons 147
- The Move to Normative Judgments 147
- Revisiting the Relations of Past and Present 150
- Procedural Pragmatism: Reentering the Public Arena 153
- In the Face of Multiple Voices 166
- The Content of Pragmatic Norms 181
- Tragedy and Hope 189.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-215) and index.
- ISBN:
- 079144693X
- 0791446948
- OCLC:
- 42863154
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