Postliberal theological method : a critical study - Vidu, Adonis (Milton Keynes, U.K. ; Waynesboro, GA : Paternoster, 2005)
Textual habits. Modernity's prejudice against tradition ; Two ways of recovering Vico ; Alasdair MacIntyre and Stanley Fish on tradition ; Postliberal notions of setting ; Initial critique -- Hermeneutics. Realistic narratives : Frei's early hermeneutics ; The gospels as history ; Interpretation and law ; The later Frei ; Concluding reflections -- Ontology. Cultural linguisticism : formal considerations ; World absorption and God's prevenience : material considerations ; Lindbeck, schemes, and content -- Justification. Problems with justification ; Justification in narrative theology -- Doctrine. The regulative view of doctrine ; Against the reification of practice ; Doctrine and ontology ; Conclusions -- Christology. Christology in conflict : rival Christological methods ; Hans Frei's narrative rendering of identity ; Lindbeck and grammatical Christology ; Christological reference and tradition as habitus.
Revised version of the author's thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Nottingham, England.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-263) and index.
Keywords: Postliberal theology; Philosophical theology; Narrative theology