Theories of Culture: A New Agenda for TheologyFortress Press - 196 Seiten Since the 1970s exciting new directions in the study of culture have erupted to critique and displace earlier, largely static notions. These more dynamic models stress the indeterminate, fragmented, even conflictual character of cultural processes and completely alter the framework for thinking theologically about them. In fact, Tanner argues, the new orientation in cultural theory and anthropology affords fresh opportunities for religious thought and opens new vistas for theology, especially on how Christians conceive of the theological task, theological diversity and inculturation, and even Christianity's own cultural identity. |
Inhalt
| 3 | |
The Modern Meaning of Culture | 25 |
Criticism and Reconstruction | 38 |
The Nature and Tasks of Theology | 61 |
Christian Culture and Society | 93 |
Commonalities in Christian Practice | 120 |
Diversity and Creativity in Theological Judgment | 156 |
Notes | 176 |
Recommended Reading | 192 |
Index | 194 |
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 12 - The great men of culture are those who have had a passion for diffusing, for making prevail, for carrying from one end of society to the other, the best knowledge, the best ideas of their time...
Seite 15 - Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice; look at them attentively; observe the literature they read, the things which give them pleasure, the words which come forth out of their mouths, the thoughts which make the furniture of their minds: would any amount of wealth be worth having with the condition that one was to become just like these people by having it?
Seite 184 - Pierre Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977...
Seite 176 - Daniel Bell, The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism. New York: Basic Books, 1976, p.
Seite 33 - The sort of counterpoint between style of life and fundamental reality which the sacred symbols formulate varies from culture to culture. For the Navaho, an ethic prizing calm deliberateness, untiring persistence, and dignified caution complements an image of nature as tremendously powerful, mechanically regular, and highly dangerous. For the French, a logical legalism is a response to the notion that reality is rationally structured, that first principles are clear, precise, and unalterable and...
Seite 17 - ... the extent of scientific knowledge, the definiteness of moral principles, the condition of religious belief and ceremony, the degree of social and political organization, and so forth. Thus, on the definite basis of compared facts, ethnographers are able to set up at least a rough scale of civilization. Few would dispute that the following races are arranged rightly in order of culture :—Australian, Tahitian, Aztec, Chinese, Italian.
Seite 17 - The educated world of Europe and America practically settles a standard by simply placing its own nations at one end of the social series and savage tribes at the other, arranging the rest of mankind between these limits according as they correspond more closely to savage or to cultured life.
Seite 57 - The distinctiveness of cultural identity is therefore not a product of isolation; it is not a matter of a culture's being simply selfgenerated, pure and unmixed; it is not a matter of "us" vs. "them". Cultural identity becomes instead, a hybrid, relational affair, something that lives between as much as within cultures. What is important for cultural identity is the novel way cultural elements from elsewhere are now put to work, by means of such complex and ad hoc relational processes as resistance,...
Seite 14 - ... fill the framework of the State with them, to fashion its internal composition and all its laws and institutions conformably to them, and to make the State more and more the expression, as we say, of our best self, which is not manifold and vulgar and unstable and contentious and ever-varying, but one and noble and secure and peaceful and the same for all mankind...
Verweise auf dieses Buch
Clashing Symbols: An Introduction to Faith and Culture Michael Paul Gallagher Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2003 |
Overcoming Our Evil: Human Nature and Spiritual Exercises in Xunzi and Augustine Aaron Stalnaker Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2006 |