Irony, innocence, and myth: Douglas C. Macintosh's untraditional orthodoxy

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dc.contributor.advisorStroup, John M.en_US
dc.creatorGrubbs, Gayle Gudgeren_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-04T00:20:31Zen_US
dc.date.available2009-06-04T00:20:31Zen_US
dc.date.issued1996en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study analyzes the relationship of Douglas Clyde Macintosh to the time in which he lived using the concepts of irony, innocence, and myth. By employing these concepts, the author identifies four significant moves that Macintosh made to break with philosophical idealism. The author explores Macintosh's relationship to an older, reigning Ritschlian liberal theology, and the development of neo-orthodoxy by his students H. Richard and Reinhold Niebuhr. This Yale strand of neo-orthodoxy is relevant to the "new historicism" as described by William Dean. The author explores the relevance of Macintosh's work to the developing new historicism including neopragmatism in philosophy, radical empiricism, the American evasion of epistemology, and the role of apologetics in inter-religious dialogue. Macintosh's Yale strand of empirical theology emerges as a significant critique of the new historicist position. In response to the social, intellectual and religious crisis of modernity, Macintosh moved to recover objectivism in theology, attempted to rehabilitate the apologetic arguments for the existence of God and the reasonableness of religious belief, employed the Radical Method in theology to define and to defend an essence of Christianity, and employed the Anselmian apologetic tactic of leaving Christ aside to prove his necessity for human salvation. His use of the Ritschlian Radical Method in theology produced differences in Macintosh's and Ritschl's theological content. The author also analyzes the criticisms that H. Richard and Reinhold Niebuhr leveled against Macintosh. Eight reasons are presented for the eclipse of Macintosh's empirical theology in scholarship.en_US
dc.format.extent411 p.en_US
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dc.identifier.callnoTHESIS RELI. 1996 GRUBBSen_US
dc.identifier.citationGrubbs, Gayle Gudger. "Irony, innocence, and myth: Douglas C. Macintosh's untraditional orthodoxy." (1996) Diss., Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17004">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17004</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/17004en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
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dc.subjectTheologyen_US
dc.subjectPhilosophy of Religionen_US
dc.subjectReligious historyen_US
dc.subjectPhilosophyen_US
dc.titleIrony, innocence, and myth: Douglas C. Macintosh's untraditional orthodoxyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.materialTexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentReligious Studiesen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineHumanitiesen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophyen_US
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