Trial of the Witnesses: The Rise and Decline of Postliberal Theology (Challenges in Contemporary Theology) by Paul Dehart

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Trial of the Witnesses: The Rise and Decline of Postliberal Theology (Challenges in Contemporary Theology) Paul Dehart
Language: English
Page: 320
Format: pdf
ISBN: 1405132957, 9780470775455
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Review

"The book's main contribution thus lies less in its analysis of Lindbeck's and Frei's theology than in its suggestive insights as to what a liberal theology after postliberalism might look like". (The Journal of SJT, Volume 64/1, 2011)

“The Trial of the Witnesses is a truly exciting book that points to new ways of conceiving of and doing theology, both in its disruption of the terms of the postliberal debate and in it" modeling of a "thicker" form of textual analysis.” (The Journal of Religion, 2009)

"DeHart's The Trial of the Witnesses is both the most profound analysis to date of the so-called 'Yale School,' and a brilliant attempt to rehabilitate the distinctive theological approach of Hans Frei. But, more than that, it is also a highly suggestive and illuminating constructive proposal in its own right."
Faith and Theology

" DeHart sees postliberalism as a river whose future is in the many smaller streams of the delta it formed. Others may regard the very idea of a genuine and contained school of thought at Yale as overblown or parochial, seeing this school's contributions as part of a much bigger river flowing through 20th-century theology." Choice

“Engaging and insightful exploration … .Vivid presentation of … both cultural and scholastic contexts. This book is valuable for scholars and graduate students alike.” Religious Studies Review

From the Back Cover

The much discussed notion of postliberal theology developed from the writings of two theologians at Yale University, Hans Frei and George Lindbeck. In The Trial of the Witnesses, Paul J. DeHart provides a thorough analysis and critique of postliberal theology, beginning with an examination of the intellectual context of Frei and Lindbeck’s thought and the controversies to which their work has given rise. The book scrutinizes the dogmatic underpinnings of Frei and Lindbeck’s understandings of theology and investigates the key concepts taken from their work which have been used to construct the idea of postliberalism.

The author finds the sharp opposition between “revisionist” and “postliberal” modes of theology conceptually incoherent and misleading. He argues that the contributions of both Frei and Lindbeck are distorted by the prevalent tendency to interpret them through these categories. In conclusion, he outlines an alternative understanding of Christian faith and its cultural transactions, and a different configuration of the task of theology, which together enable him to reconceptualize these thinkers’ contributions to contemporary theological discussion.

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