History Making History: The New Historicism in American Religious Thought (S U N Y Series in Philosophy)
by William D. Dean
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This book recognizes that the postmodern "new historicism" leads to a value-neutral relativism and leaves theology with an impossible choice. Dean argues that the postmodern challenge is incoherent and ineffective unless it is reinterpreted in terms of its classical American roots. Before offering a third option, Dean defends the neopragmatism of Richard Rorty, Richard Bernstein, Nelson Goodman, Hilary Putnam, Cornel West, and Jeffrey Stout; the deconstructivism of Jacques Derrida and Mark show more Taylor; and the recent theology of Gordon Kaufman. The third option, opening up a new possibility for American theology, is the radical empiricism of William James and John Dewey and the precedent of the "Chicago School." show lessTags
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- Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction, History
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- 200.973 — Religion The Bible & Christianity Religion History, geographic treatment, biography North America United States
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- BR115 .H5 .D4 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Christianity Christianity Christianity in relation to special subjects
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