Conversational Theology: A Dialectical Approach To Biblical Interpretation
This book is the culmination of 10 years of theological reflection by licensed minister who takes scholarship seriously. The author suggests that we approach the Bible as neither simply the human response to God nor as God dictating who He is directly to us, but as God working in and through human communities' internal discussion and struggles to accomplish revelation.CONVERSATIONAL THEOLOGY begins by arguing for this basic theological approach; taking the Bible to be a series of conversations in response to the human experience of God, conversations that God uses to communicate information about Who He is. This 'conversational' or dialectical approach is then applied to a number of doctrines and issues of wide interest to the Christian community: creation, sin, prophecy, incarnation, the church, pneumatology, and eschatology. The goal is to illuminate many theological issues in a new way that is biblically based and intellectually sophisticated. The author also tries to point the way to other theological books and thinkers he thinks would enrich the lives of any person interested in serious theological reflection.