| Description |
xi, 180 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
1. God as Self-Affirming Illusion? Manipulation, Truth and Language -- 2. Postmodernism, Modernity and the Postmodern Self -- 3. Do All Controlling Models in Religion Serve Manipulative Purposes? -- 4. The Rhetoric of Theological Models and Currencies of Meaning -- 5. Language, Truth and Life in Theology and Postmodernity -- 6. Non-Manipulative Interpretation and Truth as Relational -- 7. Respecting the Other: Transcending Prior Categories and the Limits of Empirical Method -- 8. Biblical Texts and Pastoral Hermeneutics: History, Science and Personhood -- 9. A Temporal Hermeneutic of the Self Through the 'Detour' of Texts as 'Other' -- 10. Five Ways in which Textual Reading Interprets the Self -- 11. Self-Deception and Sub-Text: Psychoanalysis, Suspicion and Conversation -- 12. Self-Identity within the Temporal Logic of Narrative Plot -- 13. The Sea of Faith Network: Interpreting God as a Human Construct -- 14. Successive Stages in Cupitt's Interpretations of God |
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15. 'Taking leave of God' as Internalizing, De-objectifying and Autonomy -- 16. Rehearsing an Over-played Script: 'Facts', World-Views and Divine Agency -- 17. 'God's Second Death' in the Postmodern Self: An 'Internalized' God Now? -- 18. Pluralism or Propaganda? The Forked Rhetoric of Postmodern Interpretation -- 19. The Collapse of the Hope of the 'Modern' Self: From Active Agency to Passive Situatedness -- 20. More Social Consequences of Postmodern Selfhood: Despair, Conflict and Manipulation -- 21. Corporate Power and Corporate Self-Deception -- 22. Present and Future: The Pluriform Grammar of Hope and the God of Promise -- 23. Further Issues on 'Interpreting God': Christology and Trinity -- 24. Will-to-Power De-centred, Transformed and Re-centred in Promise and Love |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-172) and indexes |
| Subject |
God (Christianity)
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God (Christianity) -- History of doctrines -- 20th century.
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God.
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God -- History of doctrines -- 20th century.
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Self.
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Hermeneutics -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- 20th century.
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Postmodernism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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| LC no. |
95037862 |
| ISBN |
0802841287 paperback alkaline paper |
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