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A Critical Study on the Postliberal Theology and the Postconservative Theology
-With Special Reference to George Lindbeck and Stanley Grenz-
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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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