Theology at the Void explores the intersection of three central
questions: What is human being? What is language? What is theology?
Drawing on the writings of five major intellectuals from various
religious and academic traditions, Thomas M. Kelly seeks to answer
these questions by tracing the emergence of a problem that arises
when various modes of thought disagree on the relationship between
experience, language, and theological inquiry.
Kelly begins the discussion with an analysis of Friedrich
Schleiermacher's understanding of human experience, language, and
theology to articulate the Christian faith. Twentieth-century
thinkers Wayne Proudfoot and George Lindbeck are introduced early
in the text as critics of Schleiermacher's approach, which, they
maintain, is dependent upon a culturally limited theological
anthropology. Kelly argues that contrary to Schleiermacher's "turn
to the subject" theological methodology, postmodern thinkers assign
no priority to experience but rather assert that languages and
cultural systems construct experience.
As one solution to the tension between these two camps, Kelly
proposes two alternative approaches: George Steiner and Karl
Rahner. In his book Real Presences, renowned literary critic George
Steiner suggests a possibility for moving beyond the more radical
anthropological elements of the postmodern critique. Karl Rahner
offers a theological alternative that is sensitive both to the
postmodern critique as well as to the nature of Catholic theology.
Kelly demonstrates how both of these great thinkers provide a
viable resolution to a major problem facing systematic theology. In
the end, Kelly finds Rahner's resolution most persuasive.
Theologyat the Void is an engaging assessment of the problem of
whether one can formulate a theology using human experience as its
fundamental principle.
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