Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: Liberal Theology and the Falsification Challenge; 1. Liberal Theology in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; 2. The Falsification Challenge; 3. The Liberal Response; 4. A Purified Liberal Theology; PART TWO: Postliberal Theology and Ordinary Language Philosophy; 5. The Barthian Project in Postliberal Perspective; 6. Allies for Barth's Heirs: Wittgenstein and Ordinary Language Philosophy; 7. Earlier Postliberalism: Narrative Theology and Hans Frei's Synthesis of Wittgenstein and Barth
8. Postliberalism II: George Lindbeck and Frei's Later WorkPART THREE: Problems and Prospects; 9. A Tale of Two Dead Ends: The Linguistic Problems of Liberal and Postliberal Theology; 10. Conclusion: Navigating the Divide between Liberal and Postliberal Theology; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W
Summary
This text provides an original analysis of the central philosophical differences between liberal and postliberal theology. Knight argues that important developments in philosophy of language reveal serious problems with the central methodological commitments of liberalism and postliberalism and suggest ways in which the divide can be bridged
