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Contents
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Precedents for Paradox in Theology | 51 |
Sociological Paradigms and Understanding | 244 |
The Subversion of Coherence as the Consequence of Coherence | 249 |
The NonCumulative Character of Human Knowledge | 250 |
Paradigm Revolutions and the Aporia of Logic and Praxis | 253 |
Religious Language and the Aporia of Logic and Praxis | 256 |
Conclusion | 259 |
9 The Aporiai of Language | 261 |
Reality as Vitally Metaphoric | 263 |
Tillichs One Absolute Paradox | 54 |
Kierkegaards Thought that Thought Cannot Think | 55 |
Beyond Metaphysics | 67 |
Materialism | 69 |
Idealism | 70 |
A Common Substance | 73 |
Beyond Metaphysics to Faith | 74 |
A Finite God? | 78 |
Theology Alone Has No Object | 79 |
Is Theology a Method? | 83 |
Is the Focus of Theology the Call to Decision? | 97 |
Theology and the Aporetic | 104 |
2 Theology and Aporiai | 105 |
Not Mere Astonishment | 108 |
Contingent Necessity and More | 110 |
Retrieval of Spirituality | 112 |
Listening | 113 |
Speaking | 121 |
Humility | 125 |
Theology as the Fusion of Horizons | 126 |
3 After Heidegger and Derrida | 129 |
On the Copula | 131 |
Being as World | 139 |
Derrida and Binary Thought | 148 |
Derrida and Vulgar Skepticism | 151 |
Theology as Correlation | 157 |
Contingent versus Metaphysical Necessity | 159 |
On the Role of Concealment in What is Manifest | 161 |
5 On George Lindbecks CulturalLinguistic Theological Model | 172 |
Truth as Pragmatic Usage | 175 |
Rules Prior to Paradigms? | 178 |
But Certainty is the PreCondition of Doubt | 187 |
A New Heteronomy | 189 |
Strangers and Pilgrims | 195 |
Augustine? | 196 |
Beyond Dualism | 197 |
Unknowing is not Ignorance | 199 |
Faith Seeking Understanding | 201 |
Ogdens Reflective Faith | 204 |
Second Naiveté and Praxis | 205 |
Beyond Reductionism | 206 |
Theology as a Subversive Enterprise | 208 |
ON THE ROLE OF APORIAI IN THEOLOGY | 211 |
7 The Aporia of Spirit and Matter | 213 |
The Aporia of Spirit and Matter | 214 |
Matter in Contrast to Spirit | 216 |
The Problem of Definition | 219 |
Simile of the Sun | 221 |
Simile of the Line | 222 |
Everydayness and the Real | 229 |
On Universals | 233 |
The Aporia of Universals and Particulars | 239 |
8 The Aporia of Logic and Praxis | 241 |
Two Kinds of Paradigms | 242 |
From Analogy to Tenor and Vehicle | 266 |
Metaphor and Tensive Reality | 270 |
Metaphorical Tension at the Heart of Language | 286 |
Metaphorical Tension at the Heart of Reality | 297 |
Conclusion | 324 |
10 The Aporiai of Truth | 328 |
Verification and Falsification | 331 |
Metaphorical Truth | 338 |
On the Openendedness of Understanding | 346 |
On the Historically of Understanding | 352 |
Language as the Mediator of Possibility | 357 |
Aletheia and Symbolic Reality | 372 |
Conclusion | 376 |
11 The Aporiai of Temporality | 379 |
Cosmological Time | 384 |
Aristotle | 387 |
Plotinus | 391 |
Time and NotBeing | 393 |
Kant | 395 |
Husserl | 397 |
Ontological Time | 401 |
Heidegger | 403 |
Being as Time Unites the Unchanging and the Temporal | 407 |
Conclusion | 409 |
12 The Aporia of Self and Other | 412 |
Beyond Actuality to the Dynamic Tension of Possibilities Between Intellect and World | 417 |
Beyond Heideggers Logos to Nous | 423 |
On the Unique and Unrepeatable Character of Individual Consciousness | 426 |
Lévinas and Ricoeur on the Self | 434 |
The Structure of Selfhood | 438 |
Conclusion | 441 |
Faith in a PostMetaphysical Context | 443 |
Two Kinds of Rationality | 450 |
Beyond Critical Realism and Heidegger | 453 |
Nonepistemic Faith and the Priority of Spirit | 459 |
Beyond Self and Actuality to Concealed Possibility | 461 |
The Correspondence Theory of Truth and ἀλήθεια | 463 |
Sola scriptura and Protestant Theology | 467 |
Beyond Plurivocity to Spirit and Faith | 471 |
Two Models of the Faith | 476 |
Faith in a Postmetaphysical Context | 480 |
Faith Seeking Understanding | 483 |
Division of the Task of Theology | 490 |
Theologys Threefold Division | 495 |
The Aporetic | 497 |
Diachronic and Synchronic | 503 |
Descriptive Phenomenology | 505 |
Institutional Religion | 507 |
Instructional Practical Theology | 508 |
Prophetic Practical Theology | 509 |
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