학위는 Ph.D. Sang Hwa Han,
A Critical Study on the Postliberal Theology and the Postconservative Theology
-With Special Reference to George Lindbeck and Stanley Grenz-
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학교이름: Asia United Theological University
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This articles is designed to critically evaluate the postliberal theology and
the postconservative theology for the purpose of seeking the directions of the
evangelical theology. It maintains that the postliberal theology cannot
overcome its own epistemological relativism and the postconservative theology
which follows its footsteps, cannot provide the proper directions of the
evangelical theology. Although I welcome their effort to go beyond the present
division between liberals and conservatives in the theological scene, I suspect
their contention that the division comes from the foundationalist thought.
Rather, I maintain that the real factor of the division comes from the faith
stance. This article concludes that the evangelical theology should fall
neither into the modern objectivism nor the posmodern relativism and be
faithful to the Christian theistic worldview.
In order to show the above thesis, this article deals with the survey of the
postliberal theology. Then I select George Lindbeck as its representative and
present his thought. Especially, I focus on his theological method, namely the
cultural-linguistic approach to religion. This approach stresses the
particularity of the religious experience and that religion is like language
which constitutes reality. With this cultural-linguistic approach Lindbeck
provides the rule theory on doctrines. According to him, doctrines are like
rules for a religious community and theology is second-order reflections on the
first-order religious experiences. This paper criticially evaluates Lindbeck's
methods to be relativisitic.
Second part, this articles deals with the postconservative theology and
Stanley Grenz as its representatives. This paper tries to show that Grenz
shares some relativistic presuppositions with Lindbeck. I deal with Grenz's
suggestions for revision of evangelicalism and also with his recent
suggestsions for the postfoundationalist evangelical theology. But I conclude
that Grenz betrays some postmodern relativisitic tendency and cannot properly
show the directions of evangelical theology.
Finally, I note that Millard Erickson's contention that the postmodern
emphasis on the historical conditionality does not necessarily lead to
relativism, rather it can be used to reduce one's own subjectivity. I find this
is a very good insight that evangelical theology must heed. Again I contend
that evangelical theology should skillfully steer between modernism and
postmodernism.
Keyword:
Modernism, Postmodernism, Theological Method, Postliberal theology,
Postconservatism theology, Evangelical theology
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