Research Catalog

Title

Beyond liberalism and fundamentalism : how modern and postmodern philosophy set the theological agenda / Nancey Murphy.

Author

Murphy, Nancey C.

Publication

Valley Forge, Pa. : Trinity Press International, 1996.

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Description

x, 162 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• This book clarifies differences between the intellectual positions of the so-called two-party system of liberals and conservatives in American Protestant Christianity. Nancey Murphy advances the thesis that the philosophy of the modern period is largely responsible for the polarity of Protestant Christian thought.
• A second thesis is that the modern philosophical positions driving the division between liberals and conservatives have themselves been called into question. This, then, presents the opportunity to ask how theology ought to be done in a postmodern era and to envision a rapprochement between theologians of the left and right.
• The book concludes by speculating on the future and the likelihood that the compulsion to separate into two distinct camps will be precluded by the coexistence of a wide range of theological positions from left to right.

Subject

• Theology > History > 20th century
• Theology > Methodology
• Philosophy, Modern
• Philosophy and religion
• Language and languages > Religious aspects
• Liberalism (Religion) > Protestant churches
• Conservatism > Religious aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

1. Experience or Scripture: How Do We Know God? -- 2. Description or Expression: How Can We Speak about God? -- 3. Immanence or Intervention: How Does God Act in the World? -- 4. Epistemological Holism and Theological Method -- 5. Linguistic Holism and Religious Language -- 6. Metaphysical Holism and Divine Action.

ISBN

1563381761 (alk. paper)

LCCN

96024736

OCLC

ocm34951190

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries