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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783710303321

Autore

Shanks Andrew <1954->

Titolo

God and modernity [[electronic resource] ] : a new and better way to do theology / / Andrew Shanks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2000

ISBN

1-134-73727-0

1-280-33200-X

0-203-02525-3

9786610332007

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Disciplina

230/.09/04

Soggetti

Social movements - Religious aspects - Christianity

Theology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [160]-183) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; God and Modernity; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1. The promise of new social movements; 2. 'Theology'; 3. Three stages of modernity?; 4. A second Axial Period?; 5. Arguments for calendar-reform; 6. Beyond 'metaphysics'; 7. Post-metaphysical faith; 8. Expressivism and individuality in new social movements; 9. Against 'recoil-theology': do the failures of second modernity really compel us to go backwards?; 10. The healing of Christendom's original trauma: against a theology without absolutes; 11. A new covenant?; 12. The other matrix: Islamic civil society

13. 'Holy, Catholic and Apostolic'14. Discourse ethics and religion; 15. 'Wo aber Gefahr ist ...'; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

For the past four hundred years, theological debate has been dominated by a fundamental divide: between the liberals, with strong loyalties to the secularity of the secular state and university on the one hand, and the neo-orthodox, insisting on the absolute priority of a proper loyalty to the church community itself, on the other. God and Modernity strikes off in a fundamentally new directionAndrew Shanks boldly calls for a new and better way to do theology.Shanks argues that God is most present in a culture where public debate over ethical issues



flourishes best. Social movements such as