Marginal Christianity

Ch.1 From Heraclitus to Havel. The problem of the one and the many in modern life and thought                 1 The idea of modernity There is both continuity and diversity between ancients and moderns (contra the claims of some postmoderns that humanity today is something new and different than other eras. Task: “ I shall look at the world which we all share, believer and unbeliever alike, through a focus provided by the doctrine of the God made known in Christ and the Spirit, and in a process of identification and elucidation shall hope to illumine where we stand now, so laying the basis for an approach to a Christian theology appropriate to the time.” -In other words, Gunton proposes to use a trinitarian view of God to forge a contextually relevant view of today’s world. the complexity of the modern world is obscured by the ideology of modernity. For us to truly see our world is there...

I will be suspending Torrance Tuesday in favor of Colin Gunton Tuesday for a while. We’ll work through his important book The One, the Three, and the Many .                                                                                                                                    PART ONE THE DISPLACEMENT OF GOD Introduction Willia...

http://theologyoutofbounds.wordpress.com/2014/05/16/karl-barths-failure-modernity-and-the-capacity-for-god/ MAY 16, 2014 tags:  Karl Barth ,  Modernism by   Darren Sumner Matthew Rose’s new essay in  First Things  — titled “Karl Barth’s Failure”  (June 2014) — is prompting no shortage of objections from the younger Barth scholars online.  (See the very fine posts by  Kevin Davis ,  David Congdon ,  Bobby Grow , and  David Guretski .) I just have  a word  or two to add to this conversation.  It pertains to the idea that human beings are created with an innate capacity for God ( capax Dei ). As Rose narrates it,  “modernity”  (viz. Descartes, Kant, Hume,  et al ) posed a serious epistemological problem for the  Christian faith  which Protestant liberalism sought to resolve.  After being reared in this school Barth subjected it to “pitiless critique,” rejecting religious ex...