The trial of the witnesses: the rise and decline of postliberal theology
Malden, MA ; Oxford
Blackwell Pub.
Challenges in contemporary theology
Includes bibliographical references )p. ]283[-292( and index
Paul J. DeHart
Genesis of a concept : postliberalism and its opponents -- Preparation : 5491-45 -- Exploring new directions at Yale : 5591-46 -- A tendency takes shape : 5691-47 -- The "Yale school" before postliberalism : 5791-48 -- The crystallization and contentious reception of postliberalism : 5891-49 -- The decline of postliberalism : 5991 to the present -- The goal of the present work -- George Lindbeck : theology and the ecclesial people of witness -- Orthodoxy and society after Christendom -- Community definition by grammatical rules -- The truth of the people of witness -- A new theology for the ecclesial "text" -- Hans Frei : theology and the christological object of witness -- Concreteness and identity in the christological object -- Christology and biblical hermeneutics -- Negotiating perspectives on the christological object -- The "generosity" of orthodoxy as an issue of method -- Lindbeck : elusive oppositions and the construction of postliberalism )I( -- The conceptual scaffolding of the liberal-postliberal dualism -- Ecclesiology and the verbum externum -- Liberalism as "experiential-expressivism" -- Intratextuality -- Temptations of opposition -- Frei : elusive oppositions and the construction of postliberalism )II( -- The mystery of the christological object and types of theology -- The typology -- Dogmatics and apologetics : a zero-sum game? -- Systematic versus ad hoc )I( : the case of David Tracy -- Systematic versus ad hoc )II( : irreducible mystery and the lessons of correlation -- The trial of the witnesses : the Yale thinkers "after" postliberalism -- Fashioning an alternative to postliberalism : the trial -- Trial as endurance under temptation -- Trial as experiment -- Trial as submission to judgment -- The logic of proliferation