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Liberalism versus Postliberalism ACADEMY SERIES Series Editor Aaron W. Hughes, University at Buffalo A Publication Series of Th e American Academy of Religion and Oxford University Press Incarnation and Physics A Th eology of Criticism Natural Science in the Th eology of Balthasar, Postmodernism, and the Catholic Th omas F. Torrance Imagination Tapio Luoma Michael P. Murphy Of Borders and Margins Incarnation Anyway Hispanic Disciples in Texas, 1888–1945 Arguments for Supralapsarian Christology Daisy L. Machado Edwin Chr. Van Driel Yves Congar’s Th eology of the Holy Spirit Disability and Christian Th eology Elizabeth Teresa Groppe Embodied Limits and Constructive Possibilities Deborah Beth Creamer Hsieh Liang-Tso and the A nalects of Confucius Meeting God on the Cross Humane Learning as a Religious Quest Christ, the Cross, and the Feminist Critique Th omas W. 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Stephenson Kathleen Garces-Foley Other Dreams of Freedom God and the Victim Religion, Sex, and Human Traffi cking Traumatic Intrusions on Grace and Freedom Yvonne C. Zimmerman Jennifer Erin Beste Liberalism Versus Postliberalism Th e Creative Suffering of the Triune god Th e Great Divide in Twentieth-Century An Evolutionary Th eology Th eology Gloria L. Schaab John Allan Knight Liberalism versus Postliberalism The Great Divide in Twentieth-Century Theology John Allan Knight 1 3 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. 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Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Knight, John Allan. Liberalism versus postliberalism : the great divide in twentieth-century theology / John Allan Knight. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 978–0–19–996938–8 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Postliberal theology. 2. Liberalism (Religion) 3. Th eology—History—20th century. I. Title. BT83.595.K55 2013 230′.046—dc23 2012026759 ISBN 978–0–19–996938–8 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper To my mother, Justine Knight And to the memory of my father, John Allan Knight, Sr. This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 PART ONE: Liberal Th eology and the Falsification Challenge 1. Liberal Th eology in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 19 2. Th e Falsification Challenge 37 3. Th e Liberal Response 53 4. A Purified Liberal Th eology 78 PART TWO: Postliberal Th eology and Ordinary Language Philosophy 5. Th e Barthian Project in Postliberal Perspective 125 6. Allies for Barth’s Heirs: Wittgenstein and Ordinary Language Philosophy 139 7. Earlier Postliberalism: Narrative Th eology and Hans Frei’s Synthesis of Wittgenstein and Barth 155 8. Postliberalism II: George Lindbeck and Frei’s Later Work 199 PART THREE: Problems and Prospects 9. A Tale of Two Dead Ends: Th e Linguistic Problems of Liberal and Postliberal Th eology 227 10. Conclusion: Navigating the Divide between Liberal and Postliberal Th eology 265 B ibliography 2 91 Index 305 This page intentionally left blank ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am indebted to many people, whom I cannot adequately thank, for the assistance and support they provided me as I completed this project. My debt to David Tracy is especially deep. He has been a gracious and wise mentor and friend who introduced me to a practice of reading theological texts with generosity, care, and honesty. His careful and insightful read- ing of these chapters kept the project from going astray at many points. Chris Gamwell and Kathryn Tanner also provided wise advice and atten- tive readings that were not only insightful, but also generous and patient. Paul Griffi ths and Josef Stern also provided resources that were crucial in the development of the analysis I present here. Still, of course, the book’s characterization of the divide between liberalism and postliberalism is my own. Any shortcomings in the argument or misreadings of texts are my own responsibility and can only be the result of my failure to heed their sage advice. I am indebted to other colleagues as well, especially Cass Fisher and Bill Wright, who generously read and commented on nearly every chapter. Th eir insight, friendship, and support not only improved the project sub- stantially, but made it immensely more enjoyable as well. Stephen Gunter has been an especially important mentor, friend, and conversation part- ner over several decades. His encouragement, support, and wise advice has been formative, sustaining, and deeply enriching, and it was crucial to this project. Matt Boulton and Andrei Buckareffhave been important conversa- tion partners, whose insights and friendship have proven invaluable. Earlier versions of portions of chapters 2 and 3 appeared in “Descriptivist Reference and the Return of Classical Th eism,” in Models of God and Other Ultimate Realities, ed. Jeanine Diller and Asa Kasher (Dordrecht: Springer, forthcoming 2013), © Springer 2013, all rights reserved. An earlier ver- sion of a section of chapter 4 appeared as a part of “Truth, Justified Belief, and the Nature of Religious Claims: Schubert Ogden’s Transcendental Criterion of Credibility,” A merican Journal of Th eology and Philosophy
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