Preface to reading Placher

Placher's approach

• his particular attention to how Christians interpret the Bible
• insistence on theological interpretation of Scripture (helping to bridge divides in Christendom)
• "Placher's postliberal (post-modern) approach (to theology and experience)
• providing a way to critically appropriate the best of postmodern thought while avoiding the weaknesses" (xiv)

Post-liberal

This methodology shares a conviction that the ""modern"" period is over and that we must move past it

• thus our theology can not be "foundational", based on universal claims of rationality
• Lindbeck and Frei are important figures in this approach
• Placher is aware of the many "deadends" of typical "modern"approach to truth in biblical interpretation (xv)
• Barth became in 70's great postliberal inspiration
• major emphasis on " conversation" (narrativity)