The Postfoundationalist Task of Theology: Wolfhart Pannenberg and the New Theological Rationality,9780802846860

The Postfoundationalist Task of Theology: Wolfhart Pannenberg and the New Theological Rationality

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ISBN13: 9780802846860
ISBN10: 0802846866
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-11-01
Publisher(s): Lightning Source Inc
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Summary

In recent years the theological writings of Wolfhart Pannenberg have exerted considerable influence. However, Pannenberg's work has also been criticized for not taking seriously the postmodern challenge to traditional conceptions of rationality and truth. This volume by F. LeRon Shults argues that the popular "foundationalist" reading of Pannenberg is a misinterpretation of his method and shows that, in fact, Pannenberg's approach offers significant resources for the postfoundationalist task of theology in our postmodern culture.

Author Biography

F. LeRon Shults is associate professor of theology at Bethel Theological Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Wolfhart Pannenberg
Preface xi
Abbreviations for Works xvi
Wolfhart Pannenberg
Introduction
1(24)
Responding to Pannenberg's Systematic Theology
2(9)
Anthropological or Theological Foundations?
11(7)
Preview
18(7)
The Emerging Postfoundationalist Model of Theological Rationality
25(58)
The ``Foundational'' Problem in Theology
29(14)
Foundationalism versus Nonfoundationalism
31(7)
The Search for a ``Middle Way''
38(5)
The Four Couplets of Postfoundationalism
43(34)
Experience and Belief
43(7)
Truth and Knowledge
50(9)
Individual and Community
59(9)
Explanation and Understanding
68(9)
Rationality: Linking Epistemology and Hermeneutics
77(6)
Pannenberg's Theological Method
83(82)
The Search for Pannenberg's ``Grundprinzip''
84(26)
The Usual Suspects: Reason, History, Prolepsis
84(8)
Sub ratione Dei: The ``True Infinite'' and the Trinity
92(18)
Pannenberg and the Postfoundationalist Couplets
110(43)
Experience and Belief
112(9)
Truth and Knowledge
121(14)
Individual and Community
135(5)
Explanation and Understanding
140(13)
Anthropology: Linking Philosophy and History
153(12)
The Reciprocity of ``Fundamental'' and ``Systematic'' Theology
165(72)
The Mutual Conditioning of ``from below'' and ``from above''
166(12)
Diachronic Survey of Pannenberg's Use of Anthropology
178(25)
Synchronic Presentation of Pannenberg's Theological Anthroplogy
203(34)
Human Nature: Personal Identity and Spirit
212(5)
Human Dignity: Exocentricity and Imago Dei
217(10)
Human Misery: Centrality and Sin
227(10)
Pannenberg and the Postfoundationalist Task of Theology
237(17)
Pannenberg's Contributions to Postfoundationalism
240(7)
A Postfoundationalist Critique of Pannenberg
247(3)
Implications for the Constructive Task of Theology
250(4)
Bibliography 254(14)
Index 268

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