TY - BOOK ID - 77893865 TI - Realist Christian theology in a postmodern age PY - 1999 VL - 2 SN - 1107114136 0511001924 1280429208 0511172028 0511149840 0511309872 0511612176 0511054181 9780511001925 0511038941 9780511038945 9780511612176 9780511149849 9780521590303 0521590302 0521668069 9780521668064 9780511054181 9781107114135 9781280429200 9780511172021 9780511309878 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Philosophical theology. KW - Language and languages KW - Theology, Philosophical KW - Philosophy and religion KW - Theology, Doctrinal KW - Philosophy. KW - Philosophical theology KW - 230*705 KW - Philosophy KW - Post-moderne theologie. Postmoderne theologie KW - 230*705 Post-moderne theologie. Postmoderne theologie KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Religion KW - Language and languages - Philosophy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77893865 AB - This book cuts new ground in bringing together traditional Christian theological perspectives on truth and reality with a contemporary philosophical view of the place of language in both divine and wordly reality. Patterson seeks to reconcile the requirements that Christian theology should both take account of postmodern insights concerning the inextricability of language and world as well as taking God's truth to be absolute for all reality. Yet it is not simply about theological language and truth as such. Instead Patterson asks: where does language fit in divine and human reality? Patterson's discussion straddles realist, liberal-revisionist and postliberal theological schools, and critiques their various positions before going on to utilise selectively their insights to develop and apply a theological model of 'language-ridden' reality. This model affirms that worldly reality has a radical dependence on God. Finally, the book explores the theological and ethical implications of the model it proposes. ER -