THE MODERNITY OF CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY OR WRITING KIERKEGAARD AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME

From his first book forward, Stanley Cavell has responded to modernity's demands upon philosophic writing. He has also turned from time to time to remark on the situation of Christian speech or its theological elaboration, especially when commenting on Kierkegaard. Implicit in both gestures are questions about whether Christian theology has ever become modern in Cavell's sense—has ever responded to modernity as a crisis in its relation to received forms. If writers of Christian theology take nothing else from Cavell, they should at least carry away some sense of the demand that Kierkegaard puts on any theology written after him.     

Restructuring revised: A theoretical note on Ohlsson's mechanism of restructuring

A critique of Ohlsson's (1984) 'mechanism of restructuring' is forwarded through an elaboration of the way in which information is organized in memory and the resultant types of retrieval possible. A basic form of organization of information is outlined and two examples briefly considered to illustrate the implications of these proposals.