Theology and Culture: A Guide to the Discussion

ISBN: 0227173252

Author: Long, Stephen D.

Condition: New

Starting from a series of questions about the nature of our speaking to God, the author draws our attention to what we mean by culture, and how we use this very complex term both in our everyday language and especially in the language of faith. Culture is an exceedingly complex term that nearly everyone uses, but no one is sure what it means. This work examines various uses of the term culture in theology today.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Theology and Culture: The Promises and Perils; What is Culture?; Confusing Nature and Culture; Language; Diverse Uses of "Culture"; Culture and God; Theologians and Culture I: The Work of Ernst Troeltsch; Theologians and Culture II: H. Richard Niebuhr's Typology; Theologians and Culture III: Paul Tillich's Protestant Principle; Theology, Modernity, and Postmodernity; Contemporary Theology I: Post-Liberal, Analytical, Post-Modern Feminist; Contemporary Theology Ii: Radical Orthodoxy, Communion Catholicism, Anabaptist Witness; Bibliography.