Following the Traces of God in Art: Aesthetic Theology as Foundational Theology

When I was completing my book on foundational theology, I presented a paper on the concept of broad reflective equilibrium and foundational theology to a group of colleagues at a conference sponsored by the Association of Theological Schools. This paper summarized the book's concluding section, which dealt with the relationship between contemporary criticisms of foundationalism and a foundational theology employing the method of broad reflective equilibrium. It advanced a systematic and historical argument. Systematically, the section argued that the method of broad reflective equilibrium offered a vision of foundational theology that avoided the pitfalls of foundationalism, overcoming the foundationalism of fundamental theology. It appealed to current discussions about methodology, specifically, the discussions on reflective equilibrium in the philosophy of science and in political ethics. The historical argument appealed to Schleiermacher by relating Schleiermacher's stance on the relationship between systematic and philosophical theology to the conception of a nonfoundationalist foundational theology, employing the method of broad reflective equilibrium.

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IF BILLY SUNDAY COMES TO TOWN: DELUSION AS A RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE? THE BIOGRAPHY OF ANTON BOISEN FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF FOUNDATIONAL THEOLOGY

Journal of Religion and Health ◽

10.1007/s10943-014-9914-3 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 53 (5) ◽

pp. 1599-1601

Author(s):

Curtis W. Hart

Keyword(s):

Religious Experience ◽

Anton Boisen ◽

Foundational Theology

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Doers of the Word. Toward a Foundational Theology Based on the Thought of Michael Polanyi. John V. Apczynski

The Journal of Religion ◽

10.1086/486638 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 58 (3) ◽

pp. 319-320

Author(s):

Donald W. Musser

Keyword(s):

Michael Polanyi ◽

Foundational Theology

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The Pyramid or the Raft: Francis Schüssler Fiorenza and Bernard Lonergan in Dialogue about Foundational Theology

Horizons ◽

10.1017/s0360966900036331 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 275-290 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Peter J. Drilling

Keyword(s):

The Self ◽

Bernard Lonergan ◽

Transcendental Method ◽

Areas Of Concern ◽

The Relationship ◽

Foundational Theology

AbstractHow different from each other are transcendental method and reconstructive hermeneutics as approaches to foundational theology? Not so different that there is no room for dialogue between Bernard Lonergan and Francis Schüssler Fiorenza. Some parallel areas of concern which Lonergan and Schüssler Fiorenza develop idiosyncratically include the self-correcting process of learning, the role of faith in foundational theology, the relationship between experience and interpretation, and the specific connection within Christian foundational theology of inferiority with the data on Christianity. Imagining how the authors could be open to each other's theory yields points of complementarity.

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