The Collected Works of James Wm. McClendon, Jr. Volume 2 / Volume two / [electronic resource] : Ryan Andrew Newson, Andrew C. Wright, editors ; foreword by Nancey Murphy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McClendon, James Wm., Jr. (James William), 1924-2000.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baptists--Doctrines.

Baptists.

Christian ethics.

Theology.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (421 p.)

Place of Publication:

Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

James Wm. McClendon, Jr. was the most important "baptist" theologian of the twentieth century. McClendon crafted a systematic theology that refused to succumb to the pressures of individualism, grew out of the immediacy of preaching the text, and lamented the stunted public witness of a fractured Protestant ecclesiology. This two-volume set mixes previously unpublished and published lectures and essays with rare and little known works to form a representative collection of the essential themes of McClendon's work. The first volume focuses on the philosophical and theological shifts leading to McClendon's articulation of the baptist vision. The second volume specifically elucidates the more philosophical themes that informed McClendon's work, including ways in which these themes had immediate theological import. Taken together, the set provides the most comprehensive presentation of McClendon's work now available, revealing the sustained and systematic character of his vision over the course of his life. These two volumes will provide scholars, preachers, and students with McClendon's radical, narrative, and connective theology.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction to volume 2

Retrospect

Three strands of Christian ethics (1978)

Distinguishing modern and postmodern theologies (1989)

Language, convictions, and speech-acts

Christian philosophers or philosopher Christians? (1968)

How is religious talk justifiable? (1968)

Can there be talk about God-and-the-world? (1969)

Saturday's child: a new approach to the philosophy of religion (with James Marvin Smith) (1970)

Homo loquens: theology as grammar (1971)

'Convictions' after twenty years (1995)

Convictions made flesh : speech-acts as embodied narrative

Biography as theology (1971)

Theology, language, and life: a Christian perspective (1974)

The god of the theologians and the God of Jesus Christ (1981)

Story, sainthood, and truth: biography as theology revisited (1982)

Narrative ethics and Christian ethics (1986)

On the significance of practices

Christian practices and the postmodern philosophical task (1991)

Toward a conversionist spirituality (1994)

A new way to read the bible (1995)

A practical theory of religion (1995)

Embodying the great story in the world

Do we need saints today? (1986)

Toward an ethics of delight (1988)

Ethics for a career (1988)

How can a Christian be a law librarian? (1990)

How is Christian morality universalizable? (1991)

Picture eschatology (1995)

Taking the side of the world (2000)

Prospect

Ten theses on the task of today's theology (1989).

Notes:

Include indexes.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781481303286

1481303287

9781481303255

1481303252

OCLC:

897431205