Frei's Christology and Lindbeck's Cultural-Linguistic Theory

Higton, Mike

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“…As Mike Higton argues, "precisely by taking a narrative reading as primary rather than an allegorical or purely symbolic one, the Church allowed the Bible to stand over against it as an independent norm which it could not control." 100 Notice the characterization of the norm as independent from what the community might have agreed (or agrees) to be the case. Moreover, as an independent norm scripture constrains what the Christian community takes these texts to mean.…”

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A Wittgenstein for Postliberal Theologians

Springs

2016

Modern Theology

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A Wittgenstein for Postliberal Theologians

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2016

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“…and goal that orient Frei's sociological redescriptions of Christian scriptural practices. 10 Moreover, rather than position his later work as an independent project that stands on the far side of a turn or break with his earlier thinking, Higton reads Frei as having shifted his attention to ecclesial contexts at the mid-point of his career. Frei accomplished this repositioning, in part, by simplifying the "methodological scaffolding" that had surrounded his earlier account of biblical narrative.…”

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Between Barth and Wittgenstein: On the Availability of Hans Frei’s Later Theology

Springs

2007

Modern Theology

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This paper explores the “cultural‐linguistic” dimensions of Hans Frei's theology. I make the case that several of the pragmatic and sociological concerns usually identified as distinctive marks of Frei's later theology of the 1980s are, in fact, central to his work as far back as the early 1960s. Moreover, I demonstrate that such “cultural‐linguistic” insights present important continuous threads in the development of his theology from early to late. Attending to this dimension illuminates the trajectory of Frei's thinking as consistently Wittgensteinian in sensibility, and deeply indebted to his career‐long conversation with Karl Barth's theology. If successful, this reading should clarify the ways in which Frei's early work is more innovative, and his later work less derivative, than is often recognized.

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Narrative Theology

Werntz¹

2011

The Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization

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Narrative theology, also referred to as postliberal theology, was a 20th century movement focusing on scripture as a drama to be ecclesially enacted, rather than the material basis for a dogmatic presentation of doctrine. Viewing scripture as an ongoing narrative of God's work in the world, narrative theology sought to place the church — the community of continuing narration by the Spirit — as the locus for theological reflection and social action. Scripture re‐narrates the world, fitting the world into its ongoing story instead of being confined by preconceived categories. First emerging in the 1960s through the “Yale school” in the works of Hans Frei and George Lindbeck, the movement derived much of its theology from Karl Barth, and its understanding of the performative nature of language and communities from Ludwig Wittgenstein and Clifford Geertz. In contrast to the liberal theology preceding it, narrative theology has focused largely on communal formation and communal interpretations of scripture and doctrine, rejecting purely individualist and/or emotivist understandings of doctrine. As Mike Higton has noted, Frei and Lindbeck produced two kinds of narrative approaches. Frei's project, rooted in Christology, has been continued through the work of Stanley Hauerwas, while Lindbeck's project, rooted in cultural linguistic theory, has been carried out most clearly through the work of David Tracy.

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Frei's Christology and Lindbeck's Cultural-Linguistic Theory

Cited by 19 publications

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A Wittgenstein for Postliberal Theologians

A Wittgenstein for Postliberal Theologians

Between Barth and Wittgenstein: On the Availability of Hans Frei’s Later Theology

Narrative Theology

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