Profane Theology
This response to William Arnal and Russell McCutcheon’s The Sacred Is The Profane argues that scholars of religious studies can self-identify as theologians (if they so choose), if “theology” is taken not as a discourse that reports on God’s nature or action or will, but as a discourse that determin...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2015
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Method & theory in the study of religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 27, Issue: 2, Pages: 104-115 |
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William Arnal
Russell McCutcheon
theology
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Summary: | This response to William Arnal and Russell McCutcheon’s The Sacred Is The Profane argues that scholars of religious studies can self-identify as theologians (if they so choose), if “theology” is taken not as a discourse that reports on God’s nature or action or will, but as a discourse that determines what beliefs and actions might be justifiably inferred from a community’s authoritative texts and exemplars. Doing theology as a field of inference—as a series of if-then statements—is something that scholars can do regardless of religious confession (or lack thereof). |
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ISSN: | 1570-0682 |
Contains: | In: Method & theory in the study of religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341331 |