The Theological Project of Modernism: Faith and the Conditions of Mineness (Oxford Studies in Analytic Theology)

Modernism's theological project was an attempt to explain two things: firstly, how faith might enable persons to experience their lives as hanging together, even in the face of disintegrating forces like injustice, tragedy, and luck; and secondly, how one could see such faith, and so a life held together by it, as self-expressive. Modern theologians such as Kant, Schleiermacher, Hegel, Ritschl, and Tillich thus offer accounts of how one's life would have to hang together such that one could identify with it; of the oppositions which stand in the way of such hanging-together; of God as the one by whom oppositions are overcome, such that one can have faith that one's life ultimately hangs together; and of what such faith would have to be like in order for one to identify with it, too. So understood, modern theology not only sheds light on faith's potential role in enabling persons to identify with their lives, but stands in unexpected continuity with contemporary "contextual" theologies. This book offers clear, careful readings of modernism's key figures in order to explain their relevance to practical concerns and to contemporary understandings of faith. Cover Series The Theological Project of Modernism Copyright Dedication Contents 1. Mineness and Faith 1.1 Intending a Life 1.2 Narrative 1.3 Narrating Self and Circumstance 1.4 Potentially Disintegrating Circumstances 1.5 Faith and Modern Theology 1.6 Historical Constraints 1.7 The Goodness of “Mineness” 2. Giving Oneself the Law 2.1 Deterministic Beginnings 2.2 A New Approach to Space and Time 2.3 Disunity between Subject and Object? 2.4 “One and All Mine”: The Unity of Consciousness 2.5 Freedom and the Moral Law 2.6 Reasonable Hope in Happiness 2.7 Reasonable Hope in Worthiness to be Happy 2.8 Objections 3. Harmonizing Dependence 3.1 Freedom and Character 3.2 Harmonizing Circumstances 3.3 Infinitude of Humanity 3.4 The Limits of Human Infinitude 3.5 Infinitude as Unity of Oppositions 3.6 God-Consciousness and God-Forgetfulness 3.7 Redeeming God-Consciousness 3.8 Objections 4. Reconciling Spirit 4.1 From Civil Religion to Reconciling Oppositions 4.2 Self-Unity in Relation to Otherness 4.3 Unity with World-Spirit 4.4 Consummate Reconciliation 4.5 Objections 5. Personalizing Faith 5.1 Historical Method 5.2 Spirit and Religion 5.3 Mistrust toward God 5.4 The Vocation of Jesus 5.5 Trust in God 5.6 Synthesizing History 5.7 Objection 6. Integrating In-Spite-Of 6.1 Critical Theology 6.2 The Possibility of Integrated Selfhood 6.3 Estrangement 6.4 New Being 6.5 Reintegrated Selfhood 6.6 Method of Correlation 6.7 Synthesizing the Mineness Project 6.8 Theology after Modernism? Index This Work Offers Clear, Careful Readings Of Modernism's Key Figures - Including Kant, Hegel, And Schleiermacher - In Order To Explain Their Relevance To Practical Concerns And To Contemporary Understandings Of Faith. Mineness And Faith -- Giving Oneself The Law -- Harmonizing Dependence -- Reconciling Spirit -- Personalizing Faith -- Integrating In-spite-of. Kevin W. Hector. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. This book offers clear, careful readings of modernism's key figures—including Kant, Hegel, and Schleiermacher—in order to explain their relevance to practical concerns and to contemporary understandings of faith.