The Uncertain Center
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The Uncertain Center

Essays of Arthur C. McGill

  1. 218 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Uncertain Center

Essays of Arthur C. McGill

About this book

Arthur McGill did not write very much, but what he did write is as theologically suggestive and startling today as it was when it was written in the 1960s and 1970s. He was not well known during his lifetime, but those who cared about the work of theology knew Arthur McGill. Writing during the ascendency of the "Death of God" theologies, McGill's words have a freshness that the more widely known theological writing of that time has lost. McGill wrote only two short books during his life, and just a handful of scattered essays, often published in obscure places. We are fortunate that Kent Dunnington has collected and introduced those essays here. The essays reveal a theologian with an uncanny and intrepid resolve to make theological claims illumine and unsettle our lives. As Stanley Hauerwas writes in his afterword to the collection, "To read McGill is to discover a way to do theology without fear. God knows from where he came, but McGill, as the chapters in this welcome and important book demonstrate, had the ability to make theology do work so that we might better negotiate the imponderable reality we call 'our life.'"

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Foreword
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. Chronology of McGill’s Life
  6. The Work of Arthur C. McGill
  7. Chapter 1: The Twilight World of Popular Songs
  8. Chapter 2: Reason in a Violent World
  9. Chapter 3: The End of Intimacy
  10. Chapter 4: The Education of the Specialists
  11. Chapter 5: The Death of God and All That
  12. Chapter 6: The Radicals Are Not Immanent Enough
  13. Chapter 7: Is Private Charity Coming to an End?
  14. Chapter 8: The Ambiguous Position of Christian Theology
  15. Chapter 9: The Crisis of Faith
  16. Chapter 10: Structures of Inhumanity
  17. Chapter 11: Suffered Under Pontius Pilate
  18. Chapter 12: The Religious Aspects of Medicine
  19. Chapter 13: Human Suffering and the Passion of Christ
  20. Afterword
  21. Bibliography