Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-168) and index.
Contents
Foreword / Paul Lakeland -- pt. 1. Critical Social Theory and Christian Imagination -- Genesis and Engagement. 1. Horkheimer: The Idea of Critical Social Theory. 2. Tillich: Christian Engagement with Critical Social Theory -- pt. 2. Enter Habermas -- The Communicative Imagination. 3. Criticism: The Transformation of Critique. 4. Theory: The Theory of Communicative Reason and Action. 5. Society: Civil Society and Deliberative Democracy -- pt. 3. Prophetic Reason and Communicative Imagination. 6. Civil Society and Congregations as Prophetic Public Companions.