God and Modernity

A New and Better Way to Do Theology
1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-415-22189-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 313 g

For the past four hundred years, theological debate has been dominated by a fundamental divide: between the liberals, with strong loyalties to the secularity of the secular state and university on the one hand, and the neo-orthodox, insisting on the absolute priority of a proper loyalty to the church community itself, on the other. God and Modernity strikes off in a fundamentally new directionAndrew Shanks boldly calls for a new and better way to do theology.
Shanks argues that God is most present in a culture where public debate over ethical issues flourishes best. Social movements such as feminist movements, peace movements, and green movements have emerged to challenge both Church and State. These new movements are no longer confined to a particular confessional religious identity and are independent of state sponsorship. These social movements already made an individual impact on theology. What would a theology look like, systematically trying to reconcile older divisions in the theological debate with a new loyalty to such movements common ethos?
Anyone wishing to gain a refreshing insight into a new way of understanding theology and politics will welcome this ground-breaking book.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shanks, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Theologie, Doktrine

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 The promise of new social movements; Chapter 2 ‘Theology’; Chapter 3 Three stages of modernity?; Chapter 4 A second Axial Period?; Chapter 5 Arguments for calendar-reform; Chapter 6 Beyond ‘metaphysics’; Chapter 7 Post-metaphysical faith; Chapter 8 Expressivism and individuality in new social movements; Chapter 9 Against ‘recoil-theology’; Chapter 10 The healing of Christendom’s original trauma; Chapter 11 A new covenant?; Chapter 12 The other matrix; Chapter 13 ‘Holy, Catholic and Apostolic’; Chapter 14 Discourse ethics and religion; Chapter 15 ‘Wo aber Gefahr ist…’;

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Shanks is a priest in the Church of England, currently working for the diocese of York. He is also the author of Hegel’s Political Theology and Civil Society, Civil Religion.