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Book Review: God Matters: Conversations in Theology

'nonfoundationalist' in his epistemology.... Sweeping charges of 'fideism' usually seem not only to presuppose some sort of foundationalism, but also to overlook the peculiar logical status of any large-scale frameworks that determine, implicitly or explicitly, what is or is not real, possible and significant." (p. 294). Perhaps the reason for the phenomenon of the contemporary Barth renaissance lies in the increasing realization that modernity had unwisely presupposed that reason and experience were sufficient for just about everything in life and in death, and in this respect postmodernity is no more convincing. "Is this all there is?" is an increasingly plaintive cry amidst the manifold human condition. Sealed off as much contemporary society is from the central truth of the human condition, Barth's is a voice that speaks afresh of and to that condition of its highest promise and its deepest peril. These essays make this abundantly plain. As another major contemporary theologian has intimated, the pathos of modern theology, in the technical sense of "modern", is that it always arrives too late. We are indebted to George Hunsinger for showing us how Barth's theology may yet be set to arrive for a new generation who lives the crisis Barth was writing to subvert.