a fresh evaluation of the origins and place of theory in Christian theology. Dealing with the question of how reality is represented in Christian theology and the natural sciences, theory is undertood as a response to experienced reality, a 'communal beholding of reality.' against those who might favor a 'non-dogmatic' Christianity, McGrath argues that the Christian community is under an intellectual obligation to give an account of what it corporately 'beholds.' The many theoretical issues addressed in this volume include the manner in which closure is secured in theological theorizing, the problem of reductionism in theoretical analysis, the explanatory dimensions of theology, the implications of the stratification of reality for its representation, the place of metaphysics in Christian theology, and the nature of revelaton itself. Hardcover, 340 pages. |
