Strangers and Pilgrims : On the Role of Aporiai in Theology.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McGaughey, Douglas R.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin : De Gruyter, 1997.
Series:	Theologische Bibliothek Töpelmann.
Subjects:	Paradox > Religious aspects > Christianity. Theology > Methodology. Paradox > Religious aspects > Christianity Theology > Methodology
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Table of Contents:

Preface; Introduction; Why Aporiai?; Two Agendas; On the Crisis in Theology; An Experiential Faith; PART I: THE CONTEXT OF POST-METAPHYSICAL THEOLOGY; 1. What is Theology?; On Paradox; Precedents for Paradox in Theology; Hegel's Double Negation Denying History; Tillich's One Absolute Paradox; Kierkegaard's Thought that Thought Cannot Think; Beyond Metaphysics; Materialism; Idealism; A Common Substance; Conditions of Possibility; Beyond Metaphysics to Faith; A Finite God?; Theology Alone Has No Object; Is Theology a Method?; Is the Focus of Theology the Call to Decision?
Theology and the Aporetic2. Theology and Aporiai; Not Mere Astonishment; Contingent Necessity and More; Retrieval of Spirituality; Dialogue and Application: Listening; Dialogue and Application: Speaking; Dialogue and Application: Humility; Theology as the "Fusion of Horizons; 3. After Heidegger and Derrida; Heidegger: On the Meaning of Being; On the Copula; Heidegger: Being as "World"; Derrida and Binary Thought; Derrida and Vulgar Skepticism; 4. David Tracy: Theology as Correlation; Contingent versus Metaphysical Necessity; On the Role of Concealment in What is Manifest.
5. On George Lindbeck's Cultural-Linguistic Theological ModelReality and Religion as a Social Construct: Truth as Pragmatic Usage; Our Debt to Language: Rules Prior to Paradigms?; Faith Precedes Language: But Certainty is the Pre-Condition of Doubt; A New Heteronomy; 6. Theology as Inquiry into Paradox: Strangers and Pilgrims; Augustine?; Beyond Dualism; Unknowing is not Ignorance; Faith Seeking Understanding; Ogden's Reflective Faith; Second Naiveté and Praxis; Beyond Reductionism; Theology as a Subversive Enterprise; PART II: ON THE ROLE OF APORIAI IN THEOLOGY.
7. The Aporia of Spirit and MatterThe Aporia of Spirit and Matter; Matter in Contrast to Spirit; The Problem of Definition; Simile of the Sun; Simile of the Line; Everydayness and the Real; On Universals; The Aporia of Universals and Particulars; 8. The Aporia of Logic and Praxis; Two Kinds of Paradigms; Sociological Paradigms and Understanding; The Subversion of Coherence as the Consequence of Coherence; The Non-Cumulative Character of Human Knowledge; Paradigm Revolutions and the Aporia of Logic and Praxis; Religious Language and the Aporia of Logic and Praxis; Conclusion.
9. The Aporiai of LanguageReality as Vitally Metaphoric; I.A. Richards: From Analogy to Tenor and Vehicle; Wheelwright: Metaphor and Tensive Reality; Metaphorical Tension at the Heart of Language; Metaphorical Tension at the Heart of Reality; Conclusion; 10. The Aporiai of Truth; Truth as Correspondence: Verification and Falsification; Truth as Disclosure: Metaphorical Truth; On the Open-endedness of Understanding; On the Historically of Understanding; Language as the Mediator of Possibility; Aletheia and Symbolic Reality; Conclusion; 11. The Aporiai of Temporality; Clock Time and Eternity.

Strangers and Pilgrims : On the Role of Aporiai in Theology.

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