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Being Promised: Theology, Gift, and Practice (Sacra Doctrina: Christian Theology for a Postmodern Age) Paperback – October 27, 2013

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  • Series: Sacra Doctrina: Christian Theology for a Postmodern Age
  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Eerdmans (October 27, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0802864155
  • ISBN-13: 978-0802864154
  • Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 0.3 x 9.2 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsa promising young theologian and one of the seminal works of theology in 2013
By Clint Schnekloth on February 12, 2014
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Walter's work engages the anthropology of the gift and the phenomonology of promise. In fact, the book as a whole serves an excellent primer in a post-foundational engagement between theology and disciplines such as cultural anthropology and philosophical phenomenology. What is unique about Gregory Walter's work in relation to other theologians is his intentional and regular engagement with the discourses of neighboring disciples, precisely because he believes post-foundational theology lives in a situation of radical plurality and so requires a different way of making arguments. He finds promise to be particularly generative for this kind of argument making, because it is a "weak power that gives possibility directed toward the neighbor. It is open to public criticism and evaluation. Promise occupies no place and gives the place to the neighbor, requiring a radical kind of hospitality" (13).

This is an incredible and generative work of theology. It rewards reading and re-reading.

Perhaps particularly intriguing for practitioners are the two final chapters that take up the Eucharist. As Walter concludes, "the Eucharist gives the place of the neighbor. Since the Eucharist is not its own place, it makes the church out to be no place at all, a place that is porous, anticipatory, and mutual" (93). The church as no place at all? What might that mean? In an era when the church is (by some measures) in decline, fresh theological perspective on how the Eucharist takes place is warranted and welcome.
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4.0 out of 5 starsPithy Meditation upon the Nature of Promise
By Johnny Walker on May 13, 2015
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Gregory Walter's Being Promised is a brief book, coming in at less than 100 pages of main text, yet that does not prevent it from being a source of rich insight and thorough argumentation.

In the opening pages, Walter notes that "Promise, along with gift, is among the predominant metaphors the Western Christian tradition uses to describe God's gracious action. Since promise is pervasive, it risks being commonplace. For promise to have its place in theology and practice, it requires attention and examination" (2). It is exactly that kind of attention and examination that Walter enacts in this volume. And indeed, he is right to say that such dominant themes in Christian theology demand serious attention if they are to maintain there intelligibility in Christian speech and practice. It is this kind of self-critique and exploration that theology is meant to conduct.

Walter's concern is to present "a post-foundational and post-metaphysical account of promise as gift" (5).

Under contemporary society's "radical plurality" what is required today is a "different way of making arguments" (4). This different way is what is named by post-foundationalism. It means holding to more limited forms of justification, such that "Christians must appeal only to a specifically Christian form of justification, leaving the task of communication to require the rhetorical flexibility to make sense of Christian claims in public" (4). In other words, Walter's account of promise aims to be both intelligible to the church, and the world of theology, as well as to the wider public, subjecting itself to the pluralist critiques it offers.Read more ›
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