1st Edition

Christianity and Critical Realism Ambiguity, Truth and Theological Literacy

By Andrew Wright Copyright 2013
332 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

One of the key achievements of critical realism has been to expose the modernist myth of universal reason, which holds that authentic knowledge claims must be objectively ‘pure’, uncontaminated by the subjectivity of local place, specific time and particular culture.   Wright aims to address the lack of any substantial and sustained engagement between critical realism and theological... Read more
1. Critical Realism and Dialectical Critical Realism  2. The Spiritual Turn: Transcendence and Meta-Reality  3. Christianity and Critical Realism  4. The Identity of Christianity  5. Trinitarian Theology and Epistemic Relativism  6. The ‘Problem’ of Christian Exclusivism 7. Classical Theism and the Triune God  8. The Triune God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit  9. The Economy of Salvation  10. The Epistemology of Divine Revelation  11. Theological Science  12. Radical Orthodoxy: Beyond Secular Reason  13. Towards a Critical Realist Historiography  14. The Quest for the Historical Jesus  15. Jesus Christ: A Critical Realist Reading

Biography

Dr Andrew Wright, Professor of religious and theological education, King’s College London, UK.