Blessed rage for order, the new pluralism in theology / David Tracy.

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