Pragmatic historicism : a theology for the twenty-first century

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Pragmatic historicism : a theology for the twenty-first century

Sheila Greeve Davaney

State University of New York Press, c2000

  • : alk. paper
  • : pbk. : alk. paper

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-215) and index

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Sheila Greeve Davaney develops a bold new option in theology and religious reflection—pragmatic historicism—which emerges out of the historicist assumptions of human situatedness, particularity, and plurality that have come to characterize Western thought. The major theological attempts by postliberal and revisionist theology to incorporate these insights have failed to contend fully with the historicist challenge; Davaney's pragmatic historicism more clearly repudiates essentialism, universalism, and confessionalism. The theology that emerges is constructive and critical, resisting all forms of confessionalism without resorting to new forms of universalism. In its academic mode, it is interpreted not in opposition to religious studies, but as one subdiscipline within the study of religion whose major concerns are the identification, analysis, and critical reconstruction of religious ideas. As such it is a form of cultural analysis and criticism. The work includes a detailed exploration of the thought of philosophical pragmatists Richard Rorty, Cornel West, and Jeffrey Stout, and theologians Sallie McFague, John B. Cobb Jr., Gordon Kaufman, Delwin Brown, and William Dean, among others.

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Preface Acknowledgments 1. Histories and Contexts Preliminary Remarks Pluralistic Modernity Directions in and Challenges to Twentieth-Century Theology Emergent Historicism Current Historicist Theological Options 2. Theological Roads Not Taken Preliminary Remarks George Lindbeck and Postliberalism David Tracy and Revisionist Theology Toward Pragmatic Historicism 3. Historicism and Human Worldviews Assumptions and Theories Conversation Partners Cosmological and Anthropological Presuppositions Concluding Comments 4. Theology in a Historicist Perspective Preliminary Comments Historicist Theology as Imaginative Construction Historicist Theology as Metaphorical Elaboration Toward a More Consistent Historicism A Pragmatic Historicism 5. Philosophical Fellow Travelers: Rorty, Stout, and West Philosophical Pragmatism Richard Rorty Jeffrey Stout Cornel West 6. Conclusion: Beyond Luck and Weapons The Move to Normative Judgments Revisiting the Relation of Past and Present Procedural Pragmatism: Reentering the Public Arena In the Face of Multiple Voices The Content of Pragmatic Norms Tragedy and Hope Notes Bibliography Index

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