Interpreting God and the Postmodern Self

Interpreting God and the Postmodern Self
Author: Anthony C. Thiselton
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995
Genre: Dieu
ISBN: 9780802841285

Professor Thiselton compares and assesses modern and postmodern interpretations of the self and society on their own terms and in relation to Christian theology. He explores especially claims that appeals to truth constitute no more than disguised bids for power and self-affirmation whether in society or in religion.

The Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation

The Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation
Author: John Barton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1998-07-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780521485937

This guide to the state of biblical studies features 20 chapters written by scholars from North America and Britain, and represents both traditional and contemporary points of view.

Virtue and the Voice of God

Virtue and the Voice of God
Author: Daniel J. Treier
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2006
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0802830749

Theology's longest tradition is as a course of study that leads to wisdom. With the growth of the academy, however, theology fell into a fixation with the objective results of science. In this illuminating study Daniel Treier retrieves the older, deeper understanding of theology and connects wisdom in theological education to the theological interpretation of scripture, giving rise to a renewed understanding of the role of virtue in each. Dialoguing with a number of prominent proponents of theological interpretation of scripture, Treier builds on a biblical theology of wisdom that involves the daily lives of all God's people. Ultimately, Treier connects educational discussions of theology and hermeneutical discussions through a trinitarian understanding of wisdom. As a result, the increasingly diverse forms and social locations of theology can be integrated into the mainstream of theological reflection. Filled with interdisciplinary wisdom, Virtue and the Voice of God is a timely recovery of the essential conversation between theological education, virtue, and scriptural interpretation.

Postmodernity

Postmodernity
Author: Paul Lakeland
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2010
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781451416305

More than a guidebook to the postmodernity debate, Paul Lakeland's lively and novel volume clarifies the critical impulses behind the cultural, intellectual, and scientific expressions of postmodern thought. He identifies the issues it presents for religion and for Christian theology. Concentrating on God, Church, and Christ, Lakeland outlines the church's mission to the postmodern world, including a constructive theological apologetics.

Anthony C Thiselton and the Grammar of Hermeneutics

Anthony C Thiselton and the Grammar of Hermeneutics
Author: Robert Knowles
Publisher: Authentic Media Inc
Total Pages: 712
Release: 2014-07-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1780783493

A provisional and preliminary attempt to show how the formative hermeneutical thinking of Anthony C. Thiselton - once systematized and critiqued - can begin to resolve the major problems found in the discipline of hermeneutics today, most notably its varying 'disunities' - theoretical, practical, and inter-disciplinary. This book aims to show that the formative thinking of Anthony C. Thiselton provides valuable insights for a programmatic construction towards a unified hermeneutical theory. This construction provides powerful keys for unlocking six contemporary problems in hermeneutics: disorganization, complexity, abstraction, theoretical disunity on several levels, inter-disciplinary polarization, and irresponsible interpretation. Robert Knowles' exhaustive analysis engages critically and creatively.

Understanding Postmodernism

Understanding Postmodernism
Author: Stewart E. Kelly
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2017-12-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830889086

Most introductions to postmodernism are either wholly negative or wholly positive. Stewart Kelly and James Dew present a balanced introduction and assessment of postmodernism that corrects misunderstandings and examines its shortcomings. This is a clear, accessible text for Christian students of philosophy.

Postmodern Apologetics?:Arguments for God in Contemporary Philosophy

Postmodern Apologetics?:Arguments for God in Contemporary Philosophy
Author: Christina M. Gschwandtner
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2013
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0823242749

Postmodern Apologetics provides an introduction to contemporary French thinkers who argue for the coherence and viability of Christian faith and religious experience with phenomenological and hermeneutical tools. It treats both French philosophers and appropriations of their thought in the North American context.

Reading from the Underside of Selfhood

Reading from the Underside of Selfhood
Author: Lisa E. Dahill
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1556354258

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's example of self-sacrificing discipleship has for over fifty years inspired Christians around the world in both their resistance to evil and their devotion to Jesus Christ. Yet for some readers--particularly those who suffer trauma, abuse, and other forms of violence--Bonhoeffer's insistence on self-sacrifice, on becoming a person for others, may prove more harmful than liberating. For those already socialized into self-abnegation, uncritical applications of Bonhoeffer's teachings may reinforce submission, rather than resistance, to evil. This study explores Bonhoeffer's understandings of selfhood and spiritual formation, both in his own experience and writings and in light of the role of gender in psycho-spiritual development. The central constructive chapter creates a mediated conversation between Bonhoeffer and these feminist psychologists on the spiritual formation of survivors of trauma and abuse, including not only dimensions of his thinking to be critiqued from this perspective but also important resources he contributes toward a truly liberating Christian spirituality for those on the underside of selfhood. The book concludes with suggestions regarding the broader relevance of this study and implications for ministry. The insights for spiritual formation developed here provide powerful proof of Bonhoeffer's continuing and concretely contextualized relevance for readers across the full spectrum of human selfhood.

Postmodern Times

Postmodern Times
Author: Gene Edward Veith (Jr.)
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1994
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0891077685

The cultural landscape is now made up of diverse "communities"--feminists, gays, neo-conservatists, African-Americans, pro-lifers--who seem to have no common frame of reference by which to communicate with each other. Veith offers Christians instructions as to how they can respond to these varied groups.

Will All be Saved?

Will All be Saved?
Author: Laurence Malcolm Blanchard
Publisher: Authentic Media Inc
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2015-04-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1842278916

This book provides a survey and critical assessment of the doctrine of universal salvation in contemporary western theology within the context of the historic development of the doctrine.