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RESPONSIBILITY ETHICS AND POSTLIBERALISM: REREADING H. RICHARD NIEBUHR'S TIlE MEANING OF REVELATION.
- Source :
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Political Theology . 2012, Vol. 13 Issue 1, p37-59. 23p. - Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- Postliberals have hailed H. Richard Niebuhr's The Meaning of Revelation as a harbinger of narrative theology. A careful reading of Niebuhr's argument, however, suggests a theological ethic that is at once attentive to the narrative formation of agency and yet distinct from postliberalism because of its attention to the divine object of Christians' stories. Niebuhr's theocentrism yields a view of narrative as opened from the inside because it requires appropriation of what he calls "external" narratives in order to do justice to the sovereignty of God. The result is a theological ethic which is sharply critical of modern conceptions of agency and yet continually sifted by contemporary insights and experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *MORAL realism
*POSTLIBERAL theology
*REVELATION
*SOVEREIGNTY
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1462317X
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Political Theology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 73895881
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1558/poth.v13i1.37