On his blog Faith and Theology,
Benjamin Myers has posted a very insightful and comprehensive review of our recent release God Interrupts History: Theology in a Time of Upheaval by Lieven Boeve. Benjamin always writes very thoughtful posts and reviews and his blog is worth keeping on your short list.
Just to whet your appetite, here are two bookend paragraphs of his review:
Boeve’s proposal is set against the backdrop of correlation methods in modern theology (e.g. Tillich, Schillebeeckx, Küng, Tracy). While theologians such as Barth and Milbank assume a discontinuity between Christian discourse and its secular context, the correlation method presupposes a fundamental continuity between faith and its context. But Boeve seeks to move beyond both these approaches by envisioning Christian faith as that which interrupts and reconfigures the context.
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Although this book is shaped mainly by discussions in modern Dutch-language theology, I think Boeve’s methodological proposal is of much broader significance. The central argument is crisp and decisive, and Boeve’s thought is often fresh and energetic. Even though he mounts a compelling critique of correlationist approaches, his proposal might best be understood as an attempt to modify and nuance (and so to sustain) the liberal correlation method. After all, Boeve still perceives a fundamental correlation between faith and its context, but he adds the crucial qualification that this is a correlation between an interruptive faith and an interrupted context, a context which has already been radically altered and re-structured by the divine action.
Good stuff! God Interrupts History is available in both the UK and the US.
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