Praise of the secular / Gabriel Vahanian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vahanian, Gabriel, 1927-2012.

Series:

Studies in religion and culture (Charlottesville, Va.)

Studies in religion and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Secularization (Theology).

Physical Description:

xix, 155 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville, Va. : University of Virginia Press, 2008.

Contents:

Theology and the secular

Religion as vindication of the secular

Faith and the adiaphoricity of the world

Inklings of the secular

No God is God : incarnation and the secular

Worlding the word : incarnation and the Christ

Christ, neither God nor man

Fictions of faith

An ethic of the unprecedented

A gratuitous ethic

The death of God and the ambiguities of the secular

The religious meaning of the secular : language and the self

Religion denatured : Tillich's underestimation of the secular

The secular and Ellul's overestimation of the sacred

Language and Rorty's blind spot

The secular and the deregulation of religion

Between theocracy and anarchy : from the sacred to utopia

The two bodies of the Christ

Beyond pluralism and fundamentalism : a bridge over a river without banks

Worlding the word : incarnation and the otherness of time

Dated, not outdated : timing the eternal

Anachronistic time and eternal now

Ecce homo

Epilogue: The two hands of language : a secular Christ.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [133]-147) and index.

ISBN:

9780813927015

0813927013

9780813927039

081392703X

OCLC:

155124827