Analyzing the Muddles of Analysis: (Some of) What Analytic Theologians Can Learn from the History of Analytic Feminism. (6th May 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Rutledge, Jonathan C.
• Other Names: Barringer Justin Bronson guestEditor.; Long D. Stephen guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Modern theology. Volume 36:Number 3(2020)
• Page Start: 569
• Page End: 581
• Publication Date: 2019-05-06
• Subjects: Theology -- Periodicals; Philosophical theology -- Periodicals; 230.01
• DOI: 10.1111/moth.12525
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0266-7177

Abstract

Abstract: Analytic theologians have ironically experienced difficulties in precisely defining the meaning of 'analytic' with respect to their style of theology. In this article, I turn to the history of a similar research project, analytic feminism, to see how it went about defining 'analytic' in relation to the typically non‐analytic subject area of feminist studies. I then consider two commonly referred to attempts to define analytic theology, one methodological and the other socio‐historical, and discuss shortcomings of each. I close with a new definition of analytic theology that aims to incorporate all the insights in the discussions which precede it.