One step along the path toward overcoming the crisis of Christian faith has been a hermeneutic transformation of Christian dogmatics. To accomplish this aim, this book brings empirically derived life interpretations into dialogue with a hermeneutic interpretation of the theology of Karl Barth. By combining empirical, hermeneutic, and dogmatic methods, one can derive a critical impetus for a hermeneutical (re)orientation of Christian theology.

Throughout the 1990s, this irrepressible, inexhaustible duo was a fixture on the New York comedy scene, cranking out material for "The New Yorker," the "Village Voice," and everyone in between. This work is a collection of their finest stuff from 1989-2004. All their hard-to-find magazine pieces are here, alongside their material for SNL and NPR.