Dogmatics after Babel: Beyond the Theologies of Word and Culture

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RubA ©n Rosario RodrA guez addresses the long-standing

division between Christian theologies that take revelation as their starting point

and focus and those that take human culture as theirs. After introducing these two

theological streams that originate with Karl Barth and Paul Tillich, respectively,

Rosario asserts that they both seek to respond to the Enlightenment’s critique and

rejection of Christianity. In so doing, they have bought into Enlightenment

understandings of human reality and the transcendent.

Rosario

argues that in order to get beyond the impasse between theologies of the Word and

culture, we need a different starting point. He discovers that starting point in two

sources: (1) through the work of liberation and contextual theologians on the role

of the Holy Spirit, and (2) through a comparative analysis of the teachings on the

hiddenness of God from the three aEUROoeAbrahamicaEURO religions aEURO Judaism, Christianity,

and Islam.

Rosario offers a strong argument for why this third

theological starting point represents not just a marginal or niche position but a

genuine alternative to the two traditional theological streams. His work will shift

readers’ understanding of the options in theological discourse beyond the false

alternatives of theologies of the Word and culture.