Methodological choices in Kelsey's eccentric existence
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2011
Abstract
This article explores the methodological choices that shape David Kelsey's magnum opus Eccentric Existence: A Theological Anthropology (2009). These choices are explicit, and elucidated by Kelsey primarily in the introductory sections of this work. Considered in turn are Kelsey's rejection of a modern, apologetical approach to the theological task, his recovery of a premodern commitment to explaining the logic of beliefs rather than the logic of coming to belief, his explication of theological anthropology through a God-centered, Trinitarian, understanding of the biblical plot, and his decision to elucidate the human person theologically through an appreciation of the canonical Wisdom literature, which valorizes humanity's created goodness. It concludes by assessing Kelsey's project as an unsystematic systematic theology, a notion he develops as well in his earlier Imagining Redemption (2005).
Publication Title
Modern Theology
Repository Citation
Thiel, John E., "Methodological choices in Kelsey's eccentric existence" (2011). Religious Studies Faculty Publications. 114.
https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/religiousstudies-facultypubs/114
Published Citation
Thiel, John E. "Methodological choices in Kelsey's eccentric existence." Modern Theology vol.27, no.1, 2011, pp.1-13. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0025.2010.01650.x.
DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0025.2010.01650.x
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