Nature of Confession: Evangelicals and Postliberals in Conversation

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This is an age of profound cultural change, in which new categories and alliances are bound to arise. In theology, the liberal strategy is waning, having degenerated into mere anthropology and political agendas. And while evangelicals enjoy statistical success, they are suffering an acute identity crisis. Currently the postliberal (or "Yale school") movement has found a strong resonance in some mainline denominational circles. Its emphasis on the biblical text and Jesus Christ - by whom all other reality needs to...
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This is an age of profound cultural change, in which new categories and alliances are bound to arise. In theology, the liberal strategy is waning, having degenerated into mere anthropology and political agendas. And while evangelicals enjoy statistical success, they are suffering an acute identity crisis. Currently the postliberal (or "Yale school") movement has found a strong resonance in some mainline denominational circles. Its emphasis on the biblical text and Jesus Christ - by whom all other reality needs to be construed - may turn out to be the most significant theological realignment in more than a century. Are we seeing a paradigm shift? Can evangelicals and postliberals make common confession? In this groundbreaking book, creative evangelical and postliberal thinkers explore exactly how they agree and disagree along a range of issues, from epistemology and theological method to doctrinal concerns. Evangelical contributors include such significant theologians as Alister McGrath and Gabriel Fackre. Postliberal contributors include George Lindbeck, a "founding father" of postliberalism, and George Hunsinger, the former student and major interpreter of the late Hans Frei, another "founder" of postliberalism. The Nature of Confession robustly initiates a discussion of real importance to both the academy and the church.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780830818693
  • Publisher: InterVarsity Press
  • Publication date: 5/28/1996
  • Pages: 298
  • Product dimensions: 5.98 (w) x 8.94 (h) x 0.73 (d)

Table of Contents

1 The Nature of Confession: Evangelicals & Postliberals 7
2 An Evangelical Evaluation of Postliberalism 23
3 Theology, Meaning & Power: A Conversation with George Lindbeck on Theology & the Nature of Christian Difference 45
4 Are Postliberals Necessarily Antirealists? Reexamining the Metaphysics of Lindbeck's Postliberal Theology 69
5 How Firm a Foundation: Can Evangelicals Be Nonfoundationalists? 81
6 The Alleged Incorrigibility of Postliberal Theology: Or, What Babe Ruth & George Lindbeck Have in Common 93
7 Relativism, Fideism & the Promise of Postliberalism 107
8 Narrative Evangelical, Postliberal, Ecumenical 123
9 What Can Evangelicals & Postliberals Learn from Each Other? The Carl Henry-Hans Frei Exchange Reconsidered 134
10 Toward a New Evangelical Paradigm of Biblical Authority 151
11 Toward a Sensus Fidelium for an Evangelical Church: Postconservatives & Postliberals on Reading Scripture 162
12 The Contemporary Renewal of Trinitarian Theology: Possibilities of Convergence in the Doctrine of God 183
13 True Affections: Biblical Narrative & Evangelical Spirituality 193
14 The Nature of Conversion: How the Rhetoric of Worldview Philosophy Can Betray Evangelicals 201
15 Atonement & the Hermeneutics of Intratextual Social Embodiment 221
16 A Homily 241
17 A Panel Discussion: Linbeck, Hunsinger, McGrath & Fackre 246
Notes 255
Contributors 297
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