{"id":493,"date":"1996-01-01T13:00:31","date_gmt":"1996-01-01T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michael-welker.com\/?p=493"},"modified":"1996-01-01T13:00:31","modified_gmt":"1996-01-01T13:00:31","slug":"98-a-soundings-interview-why-are-you-so-interested-in-the-wandering-people-of-god-what-theology-can-do-for-common-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michael-welker.com\/en\/98-a-soundings-interview-why-are-you-so-interested-in-the-wandering-people-of-god-what-theology-can-do-for-common-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"98. \u201eA Soundings Interview: \u201aWhy Are You So Interested in the Wandering People of God?\u2018 What Theology Can Do For Common Sense\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>\u201eA Soundings Interview: \u201aWhy Are You So Interested in the Wandering People of God?\u2018 What Theology Can Do For Common Sense\u201c, in: <em>Soundings<\/em> 79 (1996), 127-148.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-dashed\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;border-color:#e0dede;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p>The best way to describe my interest might be to start with a quote from Beckett I like very much: &#8220;Are you merely interested in the whole, or also in something specific?&#8221; I think under the conditions of a postmodern awareness \u2014 the awareness that we have to live with perspectival constructions of the whole \u2014 the figures and ciphers for &#8220;the whole&#8221; are not satisfactory for religious interpretation. At the same time, we cannot leave our striving for orientation and specificity to moral discourse alone, which simply negotiates and renegotiates common tasks and goals.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-alignleft\"><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat button-medium button-lightgray fusion-button-lightgray button-1 fusion-button-default-span \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/michael-welker.com\/bibliographie\/welker_098.pdf\"><span class=\"fusion-button-icon-divider button-icon-divider-left\"><i class=\" fa fa-arrow-circle-o-down awb-button__icon awb-button__icon--default\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-button-text awb-button__text awb-button__text--default fusion-button-text-left\">Volltext (PDF)<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[224],"tags":[255,264],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays","tag-forms-of-theology-prolegomena-epistemology","tag-interviews-self-introduction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-welker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-welker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-welker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-welker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-welker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michael-welker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-welker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-welker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-welker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}