Postliberal Theological Method is a fresh, critical analysis of one of today’s most influential theological movements. It focuses on several aspects pertaining to postliberal theological method, specifically its understanding of background, hermeneutics, epistemic justification, ontology, the nature of doctrine and Christological method.
Drawing on recent thinking in analytic philosophy, particularly Donald Davidson’s work on truth and meaning, Vidu raises questions about the linguistic turn in the theology of Hans Frei, George Lindbeck, John Milbank, Ronald Thiemann and others.
Vidu looks especially at one particular problem which haunts Postliberal theology, one that pertains to its theological epistemology. Postliberal writers exhibit two potentially contradictory presuppositions: the pragmatist doctrine of the epistemic priority of the social forms of life, and the theological conviction of the ontological priority of God. It is upon this dilemma that Vidu basis his critical study, asking does not the narrative construal of Jesus’ and God’s identity preclude their ontological superiority for the Christian form of life?
