TY - BOOK AU - Tracy,David TI - Blessed rage for order,: the new pluralism in theology SN - 0816402779 U1 - 230 22 PY - 1975/// CY - New York PB - Seabury Press KW - Theology KW - Religious pluralism KW - Language and languages KW - Theology, Doctrinal N1 - CONTENTS PART 1 THE PLURALIST CONTEXT OF CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY Introducing: Pluralism and Revision The Crisis of the Christian Theologian in the modern world: The Disenchantment with mystification, etc FIVE BASIC MODELS IN CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY Introduction: The need for models Orthodox Theology: Believers and Beliefs Liberal Theology: Modern secularity and Christian Belief, etc A REVISIONIST MODEL FOR CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY First Thesis: The two principal sources for theology are christian texts and common human experience and language Second Thesis: The theological task will invite a critical correlation of the results of the Investigations of the two sources of the theology, etc. THE SEARCH FOR ADEQUATE CRITERIA AND MODES OF ANALYSIS Common human experience and language: modes of analysis Christian texts: The Possibility of their Interpretation The Task of critical correlation PART II THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION OF COMMON HUMAN EXPERIENCE AND LANGUAGE Foreground: purpose and structure of part The concept of limit Limit-Questions in science, etc. RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT Background: Analytic philosophy and religious Language New testament Language: The Breaking of forms, etc. THE QUESTION OF GOD: METAPHYSICS REVISITED Introduction: Limit-Language and limit-Concepts Religious Language and Cognitive Claims; The possibility and Necessity of Metaphysics Religious language and the Impossibility of Metaphysical Language Anders Nygren, etc. THE MEANING, MEANINGFULNESS, AND TRUTH OF GOD-LANGUAGE The philosophical situation: the new metaphysics The theological situation; the search for an appropriate formulation of the meaning and truth of god The meaningfulness of Christian god-language; the search for an adequate limit-language THE RE-PRESENTATIVE LIMIT-LANGUAGE OF CHRISTOLOGY Introduction; the question of Christology The fact of the need for fiction The fact of evil,etc. HISTORY, THEORY, AND PRAXIS Introductory summary Practical Theology; The Praxis of A Revisionist Theology; Includes bibliographical indexes of persons: p. 259-262, index of subject: p. 263-271 ER -