Suffering divine things : theology as church practice /
Reinhard Hütter ; translated by Doug Stott
- Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub., 2000
- xviii, 314 p. ; 24 cm.
Translation of: Theologie als kirchliche Praktik.
The issue at stake : church--doctrine--theology. The eclipse of the church as public--loss of doctrine--the crisis in theology ; The outline of the argument ; Considerations of heuristics : pathos and poiesis, praxis and practice -- The pathos of theology and the implied question of church and church doctrine. The praxis of faith as the pathos of theology : George Lindbeck ; The gospel as the pathos of theology : Oswald Bayer -- The church's rooting in the Spirit : the core practices and the doctrina evangelii. Church doctrine as the pathos of theology : the Peterson-Barth controversy ; The pathos of faith : Holy Spirit--church--theology -- Theology as church practice. The pathos of theology as church practice : participation in God's freedom and truth ; The church as public, and theology as the practice inherent to its telos ; The actualization of the pathos of theology as church practice.