ABSTRACT
Theological discourse, as all other discourses, is caught up in a cultural politics of meaning. One of the characteristics of the new changes which have come about, not only in our cityscapes and in our economics, but in our very thinking, is the move from talk about a response being more truthful or more authentic (for example, this theological response is more truthful, more authentic to Christian teaching than that one), to talk about whether it is more believable, acceptable and adequate with respect to the situation we inhabit. This would mean developing a much softer Christian ontology; a hermeneutic ontology – to use Gianni Vattimo’s phrase (Vattimo: 1988).
