The Anglo-American Paradigm: Lost and Found in Current Theology

The Anglo-American Paradigm: Lost and Found in Current Theology

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The main Western paradigm involves: 1) dichotomous thinking, 2) valuing abstraction qnd stability, 3) the quest edgewater shoes for certainty, 4) search for foundations and proper method, and 5) a precise language.Postmodernism often favors the mirror images of these five.There is a third approach in marry Anglo-American writers which involves neither alternatives.

This article analyzes four contemporary theologians, two of whom, Mark C Taylor and George Lindbeck, are here rooted in the newer tradition and two, Phil Hefner and Delwin Brown, in the Anglo-American.This essay may be considered a plea to avoid the traditional-postmodern dichotomy.