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Re-figuring theology : the rhetoric of Karl Barth / Stephen H. Webb.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in rhetoric and theologyPublication details: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, �1991.Description: 1 online resource (x, 214 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585091277
  • 9780585091273
Other title:
  • Refiguring theology
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Re-figuring theology.DDC classification:
  • 230/.044/092 20
LOC classification:
  • BX4827.B3 W33 1991eb
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Reading Karl Barth -- Rhetoric and theology -- Readings of Karl Barth -- Barth and expressionism -- A closer look at the expressionist analogy -- 2. Toward a tropology -- Three theories of tropes -- Max Black on metaphor -- Paul Ricoeur and language -- Ricoeur and metaphor -- The tropics of Hayden White -- 3. Metaphor of crisis/crisis of metaphor -- Metaphors and models -- The origin of crisis -- The supporting cast -- The indirection of theology -- The crisis defined? -- The crisis of history and the history of crisis -- The crisis of crisis -- 4. Magic of the extreme -- A lesser trope? -- Nietzsche as exaggerator -- A necessary excess -- An other otherness -- A church destroyed -- The limits of extremity -- 5. Web of Irony -- The varieties of irony -- The ironology of Kierkegaard -- The irony of theology -- An ironic God -- An unstable corrective -- 6. Retreat and reconstruction: re-reading Barth today -- Retreat from rhetoric -- Another other -- Toward a reconstruction.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-211) and index.

Print version record.

1. Reading Karl Barth -- Rhetoric and theology -- Readings of Karl Barth -- Barth and expressionism -- A closer look at the expressionist analogy -- 2. Toward a tropology -- Three theories of tropes -- Max Black on metaphor -- Paul Ricoeur and language -- Ricoeur and metaphor -- The tropics of Hayden White -- 3. Metaphor of crisis/crisis of metaphor -- Metaphors and models -- The origin of crisis -- The supporting cast -- The indirection of theology -- The crisis defined? -- The crisis of history and the history of crisis -- The crisis of crisis -- 4. Magic of the extreme -- A lesser trope? -- Nietzsche as exaggerator -- A necessary excess -- An other otherness -- A church destroyed -- The limits of extremity -- 5. Web of Irony -- The varieties of irony -- The ironology of Kierkegaard -- The irony of theology -- An ironic God -- An unstable corrective -- 6. Retreat and reconstruction: re-reading Barth today -- Retreat from rhetoric -- Another other -- Toward a reconstruction.

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