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Re-figuring theology : the rhetoric of Karl Barth / Stephen H. Webb. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Webb, Stephen H., 1961-
- Series:
- SUNY series in rhetoric and theology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Barth, Karl, 1886-1968--Writing skill.
- Barth, Karl.
- German language--Rhetoric.
- German language.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 214 p. )
- Other Title:
- Refiguring theology.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c1991.
- Contents:
- 1. Reading Karl Barth
- Rhetoric and theology
- Readings of Karl Barth
- Barth and expressionism
- A closer look at the expressionist analogy
- 2. Toward a tropology
- Three theories of tropes
- Max Black on metaphor
- Paul Ricoeur and language
- Ricoeur and metaphor
- The tropics of Hayden White
- 3. Metaphor of crisis/crisis of metaphor
- Metaphors and models
- The origin of crisis
- The supporting cast
- The indirection of theology
- The crisis defined?
- The crisis of history and the history of crisis
- The crisis of crisis
- 4. Magic of the extreme
- A lesser trope?
- Nietzsche as exaggerator
- A necessary excess
- An other otherness
- A church destroyed
- The limits of extremity
- 5. Web of Irony
- The varieties of irony
- The ironology of Kierkegaard
- The irony of theology
- An ironic God
- An unstable corrective
- 6. Retreat and reconstruction: re-reading Barth today
- Retreat from rhetoric
- Another other
- Toward a reconstruction.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-211) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4384-2347-0
- 0-585-09127-7
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