The trial of the witnesses
Subtitle: the rise and decline of postliberal theology
By: Paul J. DeHart.
Series: Challenges in contemporary theology
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781405132954; 9781405132961
Subjects: Postliberal theology
Description: "In The Trial of the Witnesses, Paul J. DeHart provides a thorough analysis and critique of postliberal theology, beginning with an examination of the intellectual context of Frei and Lindbeck's thought and the controversies to which their work has given rise. The book scrutinizes the dogmatic underpinnings of Frei and Lindbeck's understandings of theology and investigates the key concepts taken from their work which have been used to construct the idea of postliberalism."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Genesis of a concept : postliberalism and its opponents; title: Preparation, 1945-54; title: Exploring new directions at Yale, 1955-64; title: A tendency takes shape, 1965-74; title: The Yale school before postliberalism, 1975-84; title: The crystallization and contentious reception of postliberalism, 1985-94; title: The decline of postliberalism : 1995 to the present; title: The goal of the present work; title: George Lindbeck : theology and the ecclesial people of witness; title: Orthodoxy and society after Christendom; title: Community definition by grammatical rules; title: The truth of the people of witness; title: A new theology for the ecclesial text; title: Hans Frei : theology and the christological object of witness; title: Concreteness and identity in the christological object; title: Christology and biblical hermeneutics; title: Negotiating perspectives on the christological object; title: The generosity of orthodoxy as an issue of method; title: Lindbeck : elusive oppositions and the construction of postliberalism; title: The conceptual scaffolding of the liberal-postliberal dualism; title: Ecclesiology and the verbum externum; title: Liberalism as experiential-expressivism; title: Intratextuality; title: Temptations of opposition; title: Frei : elusive oppositions and the construction of postliberalism; title: The mystery of the christological object and types of theology; title: The typology; title: Dogmatics and apologetics : a zero-sum game?; title: Systematic versus ad hoc : the case of David Tracy; title: Systematic versus ad hoc : the irreducible mystery and the lessons of correlation; title: The trial of the witnesses : the Yale thinkers after postliberalism; title: Fashioning an alternative to postliberalism : the trial; title: Trial as endurance under temptation; title: Trial as experiment; title: Trial as submission to judgment; title: The logic of proliferation.