【论文】Theology as conversational event 2003.pdfVIP

Modern Theology 19:4 October 2003 ISSN 0266-7177 (Print) ISSN 1468-0025 (Online) THEOLOGY AS CONVERSATIONAL EVENT: KARL BARTH, THE ENDING OF “DIALOGUE” AND THE BEGINNING OF “CONVERSATION”1 JOHN C. McDOWELL Introduction An argument is as, or even perhaps more, revealing for what it omits as what it includes. Feminist and Liberationist theologies have rightly been suspi- cious of discourses making claims to being “natural”, “self-evident”, or “rational” when probing reveals that they operate at the level of ideology, and therein too easily exclud