
Perseverance without Doctrine
Adorno, Self-Critique, and the Ends of Academic Theology
Mattias Martinson(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 6. October 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
392 pages
978-3-631-36427-7 (ISBN)
Description
Academic theology faces crucial difficulties in the secular situation. Can a broad theological field be kept together in one scientific and educational framework today, or is the idea of a theological faculty to be abandoned? This study investigates the idea of an autonomous academic theology, and tries to give reasons for its continuation. The author makes use of Theodor W. Adorno's multifaceted critical theory to formulate a notion of theology that challenges the idea of academic theology as an exclusively Christian endeavor, but also the idea implying that such a theology either has to be assimilated with other disciplines or migrate from the secular academy into the realm of the Church. In dialogue with Adorno the notion of intellectual self-critique is put forward as a principle in terms of which theology can be seen as one among other secular forces in the establishment of academic rationality. The academy is viewed as a force field in which the battle about democracy and enlightenment is taking place. To view theology as self-critique is thus ultimately an attempt to enable a serious theological participation in the general debate on the dialectics of secular society.
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Series
Thesis
Doctoral thesis
Language
English
Place of publication
Frankfurt a.M.
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
Weight
490 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-631-36427-7 (9783631364277)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
The author: Mattias Martinson has completed an M.D. at Uppsala University. He has also studied philosophy at Uppsala University, and mathematics and physics at Linköping University. In 1999 he finished his licentiate degree in Studies in Faiths and Ideologies. Martinson works as a lecturer at the Department of Theology. This book is his doctoral thesis.
Content
Contents: Academic theology - Academy - Theodor W. Adorno - Aesthetics - Critical theory - Dialectics - Dogmatism - Fundamental theology - Ideology - Materialism - Negativity - Philosophy of music - Self-critique - David Tracy.