However, people are entitled to their opinion, and I fully admit that there are
areas of my theology which need correction.
Not exact matches
The growing interaction between religious communities in the post-Enlightenment world requires all
of them to engage in self - critical reflection,
which in order to be fully theologically informed must extend beyond
theology proper into the
areas of philosophy and history.
The question now is whether there is any point
of contact on the side
of liberation
theology for the concerns
of process theologians in
areas to
which liberation theologians have paid less attention.
The last couple weeks I have been working my way through dozens
of Bible and
theology questions
which people have submitted through that ask a question
area in the sidebar.
If we believe that terrorism and torture are, in fact, fundamentally contrary to the truth and justice
of God and ought to be stopped everywhere, we must recognize that the theological foundations on
which many contemporary contextualist and confessionalist
theologies rest are inadequate to this task, whatever their contributions in other
areas.
The
theology of the Mass is another
area which we think is ripe for development, especially given the affirmation in Gaudium et Spes that «in her most benign Lord and Master can be found the key, the focal point and the goal
of man, as well as
of all human history» (n. 10).
Even if we were able to suspend our common sense in the
area of religion in order to buy into this traditional
theology — something
which many people have felt forced to do because they saw no good alternatives — we would then have a spirituality that is unable to adequately fulfill its role.
David Hubbard, for example, in his taped remarks on the future
of evangelicalism to a colloquium at Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary in Denver in 1977 noted the following
areas of tension among evangelicals: women's ordination, the charismatic movement, ecumenical relations, social ethics, strategies
of evangelism, Biblical criticism, Biblical infallibility, contextual
theology in non-Western cultures, and the churchly applications
of the behavioral sciences.2 If such a list is more exhaustive than those topics
which this book has pursued, it nevertheless makes it clear that the foci
of the preceding chapters have at least been representative.
Rather than leaving this as an uninvestigated discovery, as scientific reductionism and materialism would have us leave it, the Holy Father invites us to remit the question to those
areas of study
which have the appropriate competence,
which comprise human subjectivity and creativity within their appropriate object: namely philosophy and
theology.
It is a thorough - going
theology of creation
which tackles many
of the questions
which arise at the interface
of faith and science in the
area of Darwinian evolution.
I am actually not that interested in «refuting» Calvinists, but one
area of Calvinistic
theology which has always troubled me is the insistence by some that since God is sovereign, He is the cause
of everything.
It is important to make it abundantly clear at this point that the crucial problem is the spiritual problem, and we here mean by spiritual that
area which is the object
of attention in philosophy and
theology as against that
area in
which the object
of attention is mechanical contrivance.
If I were choosing recent books in this
area which most deserve to be read outside the country, I would start with Oliver O'Donovan's political
theology in The Desire of the Nations; John Milbank's critique of the social sciences in Theology and Social Theory; Timothy Gorringe's provocative political reading of Karl Barth in Karl Barth: Against Hegemony; Peter Sedgwick's The Market Economy and Christian Ethics; Michael Banner's Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems; Duncan Forrester's Christian Justice and Public Policy; and Timothy Jenkins's Religion in Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Approach, which argues with a dense interweaving of theory and empirical study for a social anthropological approach to English religion which has learned much from t
theology in The Desire
of the Nations; John Milbank's critique
of the social sciences in
Theology and Social Theory; Timothy Gorringe's provocative political reading of Karl Barth in Karl Barth: Against Hegemony; Peter Sedgwick's The Market Economy and Christian Ethics; Michael Banner's Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems; Duncan Forrester's Christian Justice and Public Policy; and Timothy Jenkins's Religion in Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Approach, which argues with a dense interweaving of theory and empirical study for a social anthropological approach to English religion which has learned much from t
Theology and Social Theory; Timothy Gorringe's provocative political reading
of Karl Barth in Karl Barth: Against Hegemony; Peter Sedgwick's The Market Economy and Christian Ethics; Michael Banner's Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems; Duncan Forrester's Christian Justice and Public Policy; and Timothy Jenkins's Religion in Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Approach,
which argues with a dense interweaving
of theory and empirical study for a social anthropological approach to English religion
which has learned much from
theologytheology.
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The place at
which close co-operation between
theology and a philosophy
of religion falling in this middle
area has been kept most vitally and viably alive is in Boston Personalism.