Response to Armour

DEAR ELLEN ARMOUR, Thank for your essay on “Theology in modernity’s wake.” I found your words point hopefully and helpfully to ways that we can mediate some of the inherited tensions between theological and religious studies. I appreciate both how you linked these tensions to the dilemmas of modernism and how you asked us not to overstate those dilemmas—in other words, to recognize that we have to face up to how we remain modern in many ways. By way of response to you, I would like to outline and then extend five claims embedded in your approach to “religious studies, theological studies, and the tensions of modernity.” My first question is to ask whether you recognize aspects of your own approach in this outline. My second question is to ask to what extent you would tolerate these extensions. OK? Here are the five: Thank you for your encouraging words!

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