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my strategy is “Schaefferian” in the sense that my primary audience is not just philosophers but practitioners—more specifically, Christians engaged in ministry in a postmodern world, as well as searching inhabitants of this postmodern world. As such, these essays are not an academic project per se.
James K. A. Smith • Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture): Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
We should have the courage and determination to maintain a state of resolute irresolution, because that is all our situation honestly allows us.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
Adoration: The Deconstruction of Christianity II (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)
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John Henry Newman,
Joseph Bottum • An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America
Christian theology is language about the liberating character of God's presence in Jesus Christ as he calls his people into being for freedom in the world.
James H. Cone • God of the Oppressed
This theological aggression soon led to active persecution, as bad theology often does,
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
And, of course, there is no magisterium to settle matters for us. Indeed, those institutions that functioned analogously to the magisterium but for matters of public interest—the press, the expert class, etc.—have been rendered just another set of interpreters. They may still see themselves as the orthodox sect, of course. But that is no guarantee ... See more
L. M. Sacasas • The Hermeneutical Imperative - The Convivial Society
