The critique of theological reason / James P. Mackey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mackey, James P. (James Patrick), 1934- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophical theology.

Postmodernism--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Postmodernism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 333 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Far from merely reinvigorating relativism, postmodernism has detected and expressed in our time a powerful nihilating process of which truth and reality itself are the final casualties; and with these morality and religion. Beginning from the theological reaches of philosophy, this book argues that gods played a crucial part in modern philosophy, even when it was most critical of them; that the dominant nihilism of Derrida is really an excessive and misleading outcome of a contemporary philosophy which could otherwise resonate with all that is best in our evolutionary image of the universe; that moralists who turn to art in order to overcome the fact-value version of this deadly dualism do not thereby rule out religion; and that a Christian theology which recognises the evolutionary and historical conditions of faith and revelation is once again producing a theology that builds upon the best of contemporary philosophy and science.

Contents:

pt. 1. Historical-Critical

1. The status quo: genesis

2. The status quo: current affairs

3. Beginnings: old and new

pt. 2. Critical-Constructive

4. Morality and metaphysics

5. Art and the role of revelation

6. Revelation, religion and theology.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-11974-X

0-521-16923-2

0-511-17442-X

0-511-15436-4

0-511-48838-6

0-511-04981-1

1-280-42133-9

OCLC:

559593554