The Extant Works Book

Western culture is moving into a new as yet unnamed era. The term postmodern doesn't quite fit, but we are certainly long past the Aristotelian and Newtonian eras. In this book, Roger Haight explains the task of theology and outlines a method for doing it that takes into account the intellectual cultures that we live in---a world of pluralisms which calls into question every tradition and the notion of truth itself.
He offers a bracing exposition of the concepts of faith, revelation, scripture, and symbol and convincingly shows the need in every age to reinterpret the ongoing experience of transcendence. His method of correlation goes beyond the historical form of religious symbol to its communicative point, to what is being revealed now. It pulls apparently disparate ideas that are not unfamiliar but which were not quite cogently connected into a unified picture. It is not an easy read, but very clearly written and absolutely worth the effort. I look forward to taking on his next book in which he applies the method to Jesus, the central Christian symbol.