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In Theology as Improvisation, Nathan Crawford reimagines the possibilities for how theology thinks God within a postmodern world. He argues that theology is improvisation by analyzing the nature of attunement within theological thinking and how this opens certain possibilities for theology. He does so by engaging a number of thinkers, including Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, David Tracy, and Saint Augustine. He navigates the nature of thinking God in a postmodern world by using these thinkers to offer critiques of onto-theological thinking and totalizing systems while also following their embrace of the fragment and focus upon the nature of thinking as attunement. The result is a unique way of approaching theological thinking in our contemporary context.
Contents
Acknowledgments ... vii
Introduction: How are We Playing? ... 1
A. An Incomplete Account of Thinking God in the Christian Tradition ... 5
B. The Problem ... 10
C. My Argument (or, a Modestly Proposed Solution) ... 26
D. A Brief Excursus—Orienting Terms ... 28
Chapter 1: Heidegger and the Question of Thinking ... 39
A. Pursuing the Path of Thinking ... 41
B. "Step Back" - Opening the Path to Being ... 45
C. Thinking as Attunement ... 50
D. Conclusion ... 62
Chapter 2: Derrida and Attunement: Playing in a Deconstructive Mode ... 65
A. Deconstruction as Attunement ... 41
B. Hospitality as Attunement ... 76
C. Risking Interpretation—The Example of Translation ... 84
D. Concluding Remarks ... 90
Chapter 3: Finding the Groove: Attunement as a Musical Way of Thinking ... 93
A. The Centrality of Listening for Attunement in Music ... 97
B. The Place of Attunement in Improvisation ... 101
C. Improvisation as Transformation: Breaking the Musical Form ... 114
D. Conclusion... 120
Chapter 4: Attunement and Theology: Resonations with David Tacy ... 123
A. Theology as Conversation: The Problem of Totality and the Task of Theology ... 124
B. Naming God: The Turn to Form through the Fragment ... 136
C. The Gathering: Rethinking the "System" of Theology ... 147
D. Excursus: An Ethics of Resistance ... 151
E. Conclusion ... 157
Chapter 5: The Theological Example: Augustine's Unstructuring of Theological Form ... 159
A. The Basis of Theology: De Musica and the Basis of Theology ... 162
B. Finding the Groove: Rhetoric as Form in De Doctrina Christiana ... 169
C. Improvising Freely: The Form of the Confessions ... 178
D. Concluding Remarks ... 191
Conclusion: Well, Sort of ... 193
A. Relating the Parts to the Whole ... 194
B. Emphases for Theology ... 198
Bibliography ... 207
Index ... 231
