The Critique of Theological Reason
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 6, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780521772938
Subjects: Christian theology; Theology - Academic; Postmodernism; Philosophy Of Religion; Theology (General); Religion; Religious aspects; Christian Theology - General; Christianity - General; Religious; Religion / Philosophy; Christianity - Theology - General; Philosophy; Christianity; Philosophical theology
First sentence: This essay on the nature, function and truth value of theology, and on the very prospects for theology in this very self-confidently proclaimed postmodernist era, is based upon two assumptions, and it makes use of a particular investigative hypothesis; and each of these had better be declared openly at the outset.
Description: "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 a concomitant and deadly dualism do not thereby rule out religion; and that a Christian theology which recognises the evolutionary/historical conditions of faith and revelation is once again producing a theology that builds upon the best of contemporary philosophy and science."--Jacket.