Strangers and Pilgrims: On the Role of Aporiai in Theology

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Walter de Gruyter, Jan 2, 2012 - Religion - 547 pages
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Contents

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
Parenetic Practical Theology
510
Works Cited
511
Index
531
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