Another reformation
Subtitle: postliberal Christianity and the Jews
By: Peter Ochs
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780801039409
Subjects: Election (Theology); Judaism; Continuity of the church; Relations; Christianity; Church; History of doctrines; Israel (Christian theology); Christianity and other religions
Description: "Jewish theologian Peter Ochs argues that a significant and expanding movement in recent Christian theology offers a way for Christians to rededicate themselves to the gospel message and to classical, patristic doctrines of the church without revisiting classical claims that, with the coming of Christ, God has replaced his love of the Jewish people with his love of the church. Ochs examines the christologies and pneumatologies of leading postliberal theologians George Lindbeck, Robert Jenson, Stanley Hauerwas, John Howard Yoder, Daniel Hardy, and David Ford, who argue in their work that God's love of Christ and the church does not replace his love of Israel and the Jews. Another Reformation not only provides a detailed study of the movement of recent postliberal Christian theology in the United States and the United Kingdom but also offers stimulating Jewish-Christian theological exchange. Ochs's realization that some Christian thinkers retain a place for the people of Israel opens up the possibility of new understanding and deepens the Jewish-Christian dialogue"--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. American Protestant postliberalism. George Lindbeck and the church as Israel; title: Robert W. Jenson : the God of Israel and the fruits of Trinitarian theology; title: Arguing for Christ : Stanley Hauerwas's theopractic reasoning; title: The limits of postliberalism : John Howard Yoder's American Mennonite Church; title: Part 2. British postliberalism. Finding Christ in world and polity : Daniel Hardy's ecclesiological postliberalism; title: Wisdom's cry : David Ford's reparative pneumatology; title: John Milbank : supersessionist or Christian theo-semiotician and pragmatist?; title: Conclusion: Christian postliberalism and Christian nonsupersessionism are correlative.