Between the Scylla of analytic theology and the Charybdis of postmodern theology

The article describes two main currents of contemporary philosophical theology. The author notes that the landscape of 20th- and 21st-century philosophy is divided into two main areas: analytic, or Anglo-American, and postmodern, or continental. Accordingly, contemporary philosophical theology is also divided into two types: analytic theology and postmodern theology. The distinction between these types of theology is primarily conditioned by their methodology and the theoretical assumptions they consider acceptable. While the original Christian impulses of these theologies are more or less common, many of their conclusions are incompatible. In particular, it would be difficult to reconcile the views of W. Alston and J. Caputo, A. Plantinga and G. Vattimo, R. Swinburne and J.-L. Marion. In this context, the author describes the basic specificity of analytic theology, in which God is analyzed as one of beings, no different from the world or human being. This is possible because analytic theologians work within the paradigm of univocity and implicitly place the laws of logic above God. The author then turns to the basic specificity of postmodern theology, the central premise of which is linked to Nietzsche and the message of the “death of God”. The author shows that both approaches include extreme and untrustworthy positions, while authentic Christian theology has always sought to pass between the Scylla of rationalism and the Charybdis of postmodern theology.