Beyond evangelicalism : the theological methodology of Stanley J. Grenz

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Knowles, Steven, 1968-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Ltd., c2010.
Series:	Ashgate new critical thinking in religion, theology, and biblical studies
Subjects:	Grenz, Stanley J. > (Stanley James), > 1950-2005. Theology > Methodology > History > 20th century. Evangelicalism. Postmodernism > Religious aspects > Christianity.

Table of Contents:

1. Postmodernism
Key postmodern traits
2. Ludwig Wittgenstein's linguistic turn in philosophy
Wittgenstein's early thought
Wittgenstein's later thought
Language-games
Wittgenstein's builders
Forms of life
Wittgenstein and theology
3. George Lindbeck's cultural-linguistic approach to theology
The cognitive-propositionalist model
The expressive-experiental model
The cultural-linguistic model
4. The theological methodology of Stanley J. Grenz
Beyond foundationalism
The quest for an alternative epistemology
Alister E. McGrath's critical realist approach to theology
The quest for an alternative epistemology (cont.)
Theology's sources
Scripture
The role of tradition
Theology and culture
Theology's focal motifs
Theology's structural motif : the Trinity
Theology's intergrative motif : community
Theology's orienting motif : eschatology
5. Toward an evangelical theological methodology for postmodern times
Nonfoundationalism to critical realism
Grenz, Evangelicals, and Scripture
Grenz and the communitarian turn
The appropriation of a soft Wittgensteinianism.