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Book SynopsisThe central concern of Truth, Community, and the Prophetic Voice asks how it might be possible today to uphold an understanding of the prophetic voice that comports in essential ways with its expression in the biblical vision, while attending especially to contemporary judgments regarding the epistemological significance of community and concerns about the nature and function of claims to truth. Ultimately and more specifically, Christopher J. Libby hopes to gain some purchase on what an adequate contemporary Christian theological rendering of the prophetic looks like. He argues that it is not only possible to provide a non-foundationalist account of the prophetic voice, but that that voice is able to come truly into its own when cast in a non-foundationalist frame.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Setting the Stage: The Prophetic Voice in Contemporary Context Chapter 1: Doing Justice at the Margins: The Prophetic Voice in Biblical Perspective Chapter 2: The Comforts of Home: Conventionalism and the Limits of the Prophetic Voice in Michael Walzer’s Political Theory Chapter 3: The Church versus Liberal Modernity: Communal Closure in Stanley Hauerwas’s Postliberal Ecclesiology Chapter 4: Prophets, Pragmatism, and Politics: Cornel West’s Democratic Domestication of the Prophetic Voice Chapter 5: The Prophetic Voice as Realist and Non-Foundationalist: The Contours of a Constructive Christian Account Bibliography About the Author
