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Living Truth, Truthful Living : Christian Faith and the Scalpel of Suspicion by Winifred Wing Han Lamb (2004, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherAtf Press
ISBN-101920691219
ISBN-139781920691219
eBay Product ID (ePID)30779378
Product Key Features
Number of Pages324 Pages
Publication NameLiving Truth, Truthful Living : Christian Faith and the Scalpel of Suspicion
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2004
SubjectChristian Theology / Apologetics, General, Christianity / General, Philosophy
TypeTextbook
AuthorWinifred Wing Han Lamb
Subject AreaReligion
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight9.1 Oz
Item Length7.7 in
Item Width5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal261
Table Of ContentForeword Robert Gascoigne Acknowledgements 1. Philosophy and the Christian faith 2. Suspicion and Christian Faith: In Search of Rhetorical Space 3. 'They Walk Before us as embodied Reproaches': Pharisaism and Christian faith 4. '. . .As Much Terror as we Can Take': Christian faith and the Critique of Metanarratives 5. '. . .A Totality Closed Fully upon Itself': Christian Faith, Dialogue and the Other 6. '. . .Facts Beyond the End of time': Fundamentalism and the Fragility of Truthfulness 7. Stretched Out in the Truth: Suspicion and the Wound of Waiting Author Index
SynopsisThe author maintains that suspciion can open up sapces for dialogue in apologetical encounter since both suspicion and biblical faith are concerned (in principle at least) with ruthfulness. She argues that suspicion is a 'scalpel' to faith because it can carry challenge and discomfort as well as insight and healing., Whereas much of Christian apologetics has engaged with the epistemological critique which philosophy issues to the Christian faith, this book considers the particular challenge which contemporary philosophical thought presents. The author characterizes the latter as a form of postmodern suspicion within which she identifies three separate but related critiques. Beginning with Nietzsche's critique of Christianity, she traces the way in which Nietzschean suspicion is manifested in contemporary thought and in its approach to the Christian faith. Nietzsche's can be viewed as the most basic critique since it questions the very possibility of a genuine religious sentiment. As Nietzsche saw it, human nature is such that faith cannot but be an instrument of self interest. This is well illustrated by his unmasking critique of Christian piety as a form of bad faith. The second critique arises from suspicion about human trustworthiness with religious stories. More specifically, it questions the possibility of a non totalizing Christian story or 'metanarrative'. The third critique interrogates the capacity of religious believers to respect difference. It articulates the suspicion that Christians are, by virtue of their transcendent beliefs incapable of dialogue with the other. The author maintains that suspicion can open up spaces for dialogue in apologetical encounter since both suspicion and biblical faith are concerned (in principle at least) with truthfulness. She argues that suspicion is a 'scalpel' to faith because it can carry challenge and discomfort as well as insight and healing. That is, if faith will respond on the one hand with openness to the challenge of suspicion, and on the other hand, with faithfulness to its own theological resources and its own prophetic potential.
LC Classification NumberBT1103
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