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postliberal

postliberal

1 9.0
Having ideas that put community or tradition before individual freedom
  • adjective
  • /ˌpoʊstˈlɪbərəl/
  • Literature
translation icon : postliberal
  • The postliberal movement emphasizes the importance of community over individualism in modern governance.
  • postliberal theology
  • postliberal theologians

Examples

  • This perspective is most evident in some attempts to recover patristic biblical exegesis as a mode of biblical interpretation more congenial to a postliberal theology or "radical orthodoxy" than historical criticism.

    Academic text (2002)
  • If Borowitz's personalism speaks to postliberal Jews, it is because it is tempered by his engagement in the life of his community and by his ready admission that it is both situated and fallible.

    Academic text (1993)
  • We were part of an emerging movement with its own theologies and traditions, yet distinct from Roman Catholicism and postliberal Protestantism, while we were increasingly being shaped by them.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Examining his postliberal theology and accepting Lindbeck's caution about the difficulty of understanding a tradition other than one's own, the aims of interreligious encounter need to be revised.

    Academic text (2007)
  • The real underlying concern of the postliberal theologians is the fear that Enlightenment rationalism and liberalism will silence the distinctive voice of Christianity in any conversation.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Yet, George Lindbeck's postliberal theology, with its outline of the cultural-linguistic theory of religion, should give pause to the enthusiastic embrace of dialogue as a means to theological understanding.

    Academic text (2007)
  • Lindbeck's postliberal theology can be situated in a broader history of theological responses to religious pluralism that sees a pendulum swing in the Christian response to religious difference.

    Academic text (2007)
  • I look forward to the time when those doing traditional theology—even postliberal theologians—will no longer ignore the social as constitutive of theological practice, a habit of my own past and one I struggle to break.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Resonating nicely with Lindbeck's postliberal narrative theology of how religious texts shape their readers, Clooney explains how the text might call for transformation from insider and outsider alike:

    Academic text (2007)
  • Many thinkers in the academic community are exploring postliberal ideas that challenge conventional liberal principles.

Synonyms

anti-liberal
vspostliberal
6.8

Not supporting liberal political ideas or policies

moves beyond or rejects those traditional principles
nonliberal
vspostliberal
7.5

Not supporting political ideas that protect freedom and rights

actively moves beyond or rejects those traditional principles

How Liberal

progressive
105 5.1
liberal
983 4.4
postliberal
  • Literature
1 9.0
illiberal
  • Literature
1 8.2

Surface Forms

postliberal positive

Morphology

postliberal = liberal (transparent) = post + liberal

The adjective is formed by productive prefix 'post-' + the adjective 'liberal', yielding a clear meaning 'after/going beyond liberal'.

Etymology

Postliberal combines post- meaning 'after', as in the word postwar, and liberal meaning 'favoring freedom and individual rights'. So postliberal describes ideas that come after or change traditional liberal views and often put community or tradition before pure individual choice.