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dc.contributor.authorVerhoef, Anné Hendrik
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-19T09:48:41Z
dc.date.available2013-09-19T09:48:41Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationVerhoef, A.H. 2012. Postmodernism and the need for story and promise: how Robert Jenson's theology addresses some postmodern challenges to faith. Acta Theologica, 32(1):170-188. [http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/actat.v32i1.9]en_US
dc.identifier.issn1015-8758
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10394/9144
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.4314/actat.v32i1.9
dc.identifier.urihttp://apps.ufs.ac.za/journals/dl/system/docs/5/153/1252/Verhoef.pdf
dc.description.abstractModernity's belief that we live in a narratable world (a world with a story) and its confidence in progress (a world with a promise), are terminated by postmodernism's insights. This is how the American Lutheran theologian Robert Jenson understands the impact of postmodernism. If this is true, it poses great challenges for the Christian faith to be communicated and accepted within this context. This article assesses how Jenson's theology attempts to address postmodernism's need for a new story and promise. It concludes that Jenson's theology, as a Trinitarian theology, forms a coherent answer to these challenges because it is a narrative and eschatological theology. This article indicates, amongst other things the importance of Jenson's understanding in his theology of the relation between God and time. The significance of Jenson's approach is that it, firstly, understands the church as a narratable world, with a visible promise, and that it, secondly, follows a characteristically postmodern methodology in addressing these challenges.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherFakulteit Teologie, Universiteit van die Vrystaaten_US
dc.subjectPostmodernismen_US
dc.subjectPostmodernismeen_US
dc.subjecteschatologyen_US
dc.subjecteskatologieen_US
dc.subjectnarrativeen_US
dc.subjectnarratieween_US
dc.subjectJenson, Roberten_US
dc.titlePostmodernism and the need for story and promise: how Robert Jenson's theology addresses some postmodern challenges to faithen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.contributor.researchID22437649 - Verhoef, Anné Hendrik


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