PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; Part I; 1. EXPERIENCE OR SCRIPTURE: HOW DO WE KNOW GOD?; 2. DESCRIPTION OR EXPRESSION: HOW CAN WE SPEAK ABOUT GOD?; 3. IMMANENCE OR INTERVENTION: HOW DOES GOD ACT IN THE WORLD?; Part II; 4. EPISTEMOLOGICAL HOLISM AND THEOLOGICAL METHOD; 5. LINGUISTIC HOLISM AND RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE; 6. METAPHYSICAL HOLISM AND DIVINE ACTION; CONCLUSION; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Summary
American Protestant Christianity is often described as a two-party system divided into liberals and conservatives. This book clarifies differences between the intellectual positions of these two groups by advancing the thesis that the philosophy of the modern period is largely responsible for the polarity of Protestant Christian thought. A second thesis is that the modern philosophical positions driving the division between liberals and conservatives have themselves been called into question. It therefore becomes opportune to ask how theology ought to be done in a postmodern era, and to envisio
