Blessed Rage for Order: The New Pluralism in Theology Book

Preface
Part I
1. The Pluralist Context of Contemporary Theology Introduction: Pluralism and Revision The Crisis of the Christian Theologian in the Modern World: the Disenchantment with Mystifications The Crisis of the Modern Secular Mind: The Disenchantment with Disenchantment
2. Five Basic Models in Contemporary Theology Introduction: The Needs for Models Orthodox Theology: Believers and Beliefs Liberal Theology: Modern Secularity and Christian Belief Neo-Orthodox Theology: Radical Contemporary Christian Faith and the God of Jesus Christ Radical Theology: Secular Affirmation and Theistic Negations The Revisionist Model: A Critical Correlation
3. 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 involve a critical correlation of the results of the investigations of the two sources of theology.
Third Thesis: The principal method of investigation of the source "common human experience and language" can be described as a phenomenology of the "religious dimension" present in everyday and scientific experience and language.
x: Blessed Rage for Order Fourth Thesis: The principal method of investigation of the source "the Christian tradition" can be described as an historical and hermeneutical investigation of classical Christian texts.
Fifth thesis: To determine the truth-status of the results of one's investigation into the meaning of both common human experience and Christian texts, the theologian should employ an explicitly transcendental or metaphysical mode of reflection.
4. 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 Need of Criteria of Appropriateness Interpretation Theory The Task of Critical Correlation
Part II
5. The Religious Dimension of Common Human Experience and Language Foreground: Purpose and Structure of Part II The Concept of Limit Limit-Questions in Science Science and Religion: Their Relationship The Religious Dimension of Science: Self-Transcendence as Scientific Authenticity The Religious Dimension of Science: Self-Transcendence and Limit-Questions Limit-Questions in Morality Religion and Morality: Identical or Distinct?
The Logic of Limit-Questions in Moral Discourse Limit-Questions in Morality Limit-Situations in the World of the Everyday
6. Religious Language in the New Testament Background: Analytic Philosophy and Religious Language New Testament Language: The Breaking of Forms Proverbs Proclamatory Sayings Parabolic Language New Testament Limit-Experience: A Possible Mode-of-Being-in-the-World
7. The Question of God: Metaphysics Revisited Introduction: Limit-Language and Limit-Concepts Religious Language and Cognitive Claims: The Possibility and Necessity of Metaphysics Ian Ramsey: The Prospect for a "Theological Metaphysics"
Frederic Ferré: The Logic of Theistic Language and the Place of "Metaphysical Facts"
Schubert Ogden: Faith, Religious and Theistic Representative Language, and Metaphysics Religious Language and the Impossibility of Metaphysical Language: Anders Nygren Deductive Metaphysics Inductive Metaphysics Metaphysics as Conceptual Poetry The Uses and Abuses of Religious Language Metaphysics and Metaphor Metaphysics and Myth
8. 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
9. The Re-presentative Limit-Language of Christology Introduction: The Question of Christology The Fact of the Need for Fiction The Fact of Evil xii: Blessed Rage for Order Fact and Possibilities: Actualizations and Representations Christological Language as Re-presentative Limit-Language
10. History, Theory, and Praxis Introductory Summary Practical Theology: The Praxis of A Revisionist Theory Index of Persons Index of Subjects