"This fine study of an important movement in contemporary Christian theology is both subtle and clear, both informative and original. All theologians will profit from reading it." -David Tracy Professor of Theology University of Chicago

Not so much a movement or school as an emerging consensus about philosophical criteria of truth and reality, nonfoundational-ism is the critical impulse associat-ed with the work of Richard Rorty, Richard Bemstein, and others. In-creasingly its critique of the search for sure and impregnable founda-tions shapes the fundamental commitments that gird contempo-rary theology. John Thiel here as-says a careful exploration of its assumptions and convictions, as well as ways nonfoundationalism has influericed contemporary theology