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