Strangers and Pilgrims
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Strangers and Pilgrims

On the Role of Aporiai in Theology

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Strangers and Pilgrims

On the Role of Aporiai in Theology

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Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9783110154931
eBook ISBN
9783110801262
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Biblical Studies

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Introduction
  3. Why Aporiai?
  4. Two Agendas
  5. On the Crisis in Theology
  6. An Experiential Faith
  7. PART I: THE CONTEXT OF POST-METAPHYSICAL THEOLOGY
  8. 1. What is Theology?
  9. On Paradox
  10. Precedents for Paradox in Theology
  11. Hegel’s Double Negation Denying History
  12. Tillich’s One Absolute Paradox
  13. Kierkegaard’s Thought that Thought Cannot Think
  14. Beyond Metaphysics
  15. Materialism
  16. Idealism
  17. A Common Substance
  18. Conditions of Possibility
  19. Beyond Metaphysics to Faith
  20. A Finite God?
  21. Theology Alone Has No Object
  22. Is Theology a Method?
  23. Is the Focus of Theology the Call to Decision?
  24. Theology and the Aporetic
  25. 2. Theology and Aporiai
  26. Not Mere Astonishment
  27. Contingent Necessity and More
  28. Retrieval of Spirituality
  29. Dialogue and Application: Listening
  30. Dialogue and Application: Speaking
  31. Dialogue and Application: Humility
  32. Theology as the "Fusion of Horizons
  33. 3. After Heidegger and Derrida
  34. Heidegger: On the Meaning of Being
  35. On the Copula
  36. Heidegger: Being as "World"
  37. Derrida and Binary Thought
  38. Derrida and Vulgar Skepticism
  39. 4. David Tracy: Theology as Correlation
  40. Contingent versus Metaphysical Necessity
  41. On the Role of Concealment in What is Manifest
  42. 5. On George Lindbeck’s Cultural-Linguistic Theological Model
  43. Reality and Religion as a Social Construct: Truth as Pragmatic Usage
  44. Our Debt to Language: Rules Prior to Paradigms?
  45. Faith Precedes Language: But Certainty is the Pre-Condition of Doubt
  46. A New Heteronomy
  47. 6. Theology as Inquiry into Paradox: Strangers and Pilgrims
  48. Augustine?
  49. Beyond Dualism
  50. Unknowing is not Ignorance
  51. Faith Seeking Understanding
  52. Ogden’s Reflective Faith
  53. Second Naiveté and Praxis
  54. Beyond Reductionism
  55. Theology as a Subversive Enterprise
  56. PART II: ON THE ROLE OF APORIAI IN THEOLOGY
  57. 7. The Aporia of Spirit and Matter
  58. The Aporia of Spirit and Matter
  59. Matter in Contrast to Spirit
  60. The Problem of Definition
  61. Simile of the Sun
  62. Simile of the Line
  63. Everydayness and the Real
  64. On Universals
  65. The Aporia of Universals and Particulars
  66. 8. The Aporia of Logic and Praxis
  67. Two Kinds of Paradigms
  68. Sociological Paradigms and Understanding
  69. The Subversion of Coherence as the Consequence of Coherence
  70. The Non-Cumulative Character of Human Knowledge
  71. Paradigm Revolutions and the Aporia of Logic and Praxis
  72. Religious Language and the Aporia of Logic and Praxis
  73. Conclusion
  74. 9. The Aporiai of Language
  75. Reality as Vitally Metaphoric
  76. I.A. Richards: From Analogy to Tenor and Vehicle
  77. Wheelwright: Metaphor and Tensive Reality
  78. Metaphorical Tension at the Heart of Language
  79. Metaphorical Tension at the Heart of Reality
  80. Conclusion
  81. 10. The Aporiai of Truth
  82. Truth as Correspondence: Verification and Falsification
  83. Truth as Disclosure: Metaphorical Truth
  84. On the Open-endedness of Understanding
  85. On the Historically of Understanding
  86. Language as the Mediator of Possibility
  87. Aletheia and Symbolic Reality
  88. Conclusion
  89. 11. The Aporiai of Temporality
  90. Clock Time and Eternity
  91. Cosmological Time
  92. Plato
  93. Aristotle
  94. Plotinus
  95. Time and Not-Being
  96. Anthropological Time
  97. Augustine
  98. Kant
  99. Husserl
  100. Ontological Time
  101. Heidegger
  102. Being as Time Unites the Unchanging and the Temporal
  103. Conclusion
  104. 12. The Aporia of Self and Other
  105. Defining the Self?
  106. The Self: Beyond Actuality to the Dynamic Tension of Possibilities Between Intellect and World
  107. Beyond Heidegger’s Logos to Nous
  108. On the Unique and Unrepeatable Character of Individual Consciousness
  109. LĂ©vinas and Ricoeur on the Self
  110. The Self as Ambiguous Dialectic: The "Structure of Selfhood"
  111. Conclusion
  112. 13. Conclusion: Faith in a Post-Metaphysical Context
  113. The Crisis of Reason: Two Kinds of Rationality
  114. Beyond Critical Realism and Heidegger
  115. Non-epistemic Faith and the Priority of Spirit
  116. Beyond Self and Actuality to Concealed Possibility
  117. The Correspondence Theory of Truth and ጀλ᜔ΞΔÎčα
  118. Sola scriptura and Protestant Theology
  119. Beyond Plurivocity to Spirit and Faith
  120. Two Models of the Faith
  121. Faith in a Post-metaphysical Context
  122. From Vulgar to Refined Skepticism: Faith Seeking Understanding
  123. Appendix: Division of the Task of Theology
  124. Theology’s Threefold Division
  125. Philosophical Theology: The Aporetic
  126. Systematic Theology: Diachronic and Synchronic
  127. Diachronic and Synchronic
  128. Descriptive Phenomenology
  129. Practical Theology: Institutional Religion
  130. Procedural Practical Theology
  131. Instructional Practical Theology
  132. Prophetic Practical Theology
  133. Pastoral Practical Theology
  134. Parenetic Practical Theology
  135. Practical Theology
  136. Works Cited
  137. Index