Sentences with phrase «by academic theology»
This conclusion is supported by the Scriptures in a passage that has often been ignored or forgotten by academic theology.
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Although modern academic theology prefers the mystical world of Baudrillard's praxis of location and the semiotics of a post «Saussurean world of self «referencing signifiers, it is clear that the issues raised by the Reformation simply will not go away.
I am also troubled by the extent to which theology has allowed itself to be defined as one academic discipline among others with its distinctive subject matter and method, related only externally to other disciplines.
In short, by recasting Weil's thought into a form that better connects with the way academic theology is pursued, these three books should greatly assist the entrance of Weil's thought into the theological mainstream.
This kind of theology remains an academic discipline in which a Christian can participate only by extensive specialization in academia.
Thus, while the academic discussion moves off into sophisticated irrelevance, lay theology is dominated by erroneous notions of the Bible and Christian tradition and a lack of freedom and authenticity.
Thus philosophy was recognized, not as one academic discipline among others, distinguished by its subject matter, but as replacing theology as the queen of the sciences.
Much theology has become an academic discipline engaged in resolving problems generated in the history of that discipline rather than by the more obvious and immediate needs of the church.
Of the 1990 apostolic constitution, Ex Corde Ecclesiae, Curran writes: «The document theoretically limits academic freedom by truth and the common good, sees local bishops not as external to the college or university but as participants in the institution, and includes canonical provisions for those who teach theology in Catholic higher education.»
Our task is to rediscover the theological dimension of the world, a dimension removed from it by traditional academic theology which abandoned the world to science.
Already by the end of the nineteenth century, theology was losing credibility as an academic discipline, often finding no place in the new secular universities in the twentieth century.
But when compared to the religious and political right's success in defining what is good and in convincing the public of its truth, process and every other academic theology and philosophy pale by comparison.
To an extent this apologetic tone still persists in many theologies of revelation, and even in this book we can not ignore those questions raised by the critical spirit of academic modernity.
«you are not interested in reading about and rationalizing the real story of your Jesus» is a silly claim bearing in mind the academic robustness required of me in studying theology at honours level and biblical interpretation at masters, validated by the secular Aberdeen University in Scotland.
Liberation theology's development has been driven not just by the genesis and clash of concepts, the back and forth of academic argument, but by the clash of ecclesial visions and superpowers, and the simple struggle to survive.
Rather, they resulted from an often ad hoc process in which the spiritual and physical needs of the poor, the teachings of Vatican II, the intentions of the Brazilian hierarchy (running both for and against the emerging agenda of liberation theology), the brutal repression perpetrated by Brazilian dictators, and the work of academics all played a part.
Previous incidents include her academic paper on black liberation theology that was interpreted by some to endorse a kind of Marxism, a Facebook photo showing her at a party on Halsted Street at the same time as Chicago's Pride Parade, and her suggestions that the college change some of its language about sexuality.
It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.
This was not an exercise in academic theology, but a case of theologians addressing themselves to the worldly fact that religious beliefs had not kept pace with the radical transformation of society by science and the rest of modern culture.
This will be no simple task, for theology has largely divorced itself from community; it is shaped more by academic norms than by the experience of the church.
Although scholars and professional theologians might be condescending toward it, and look to Germany for intellectual guidance, for the American Christian community as a whole, the «theology» imported by scholars was of little more than academic interest.
Though no clear - cut idea of the theological school or of theology as a whole is as yet in prospect, a sense of renewal and promise, a feeling of excitement about the theological task is to be felt in the academic climate and it is accompanied by invigoration of intellectual inquiry and of religious devotion.
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About Blog WIT is a shared blog by women trained in the academic disciplines of theology who write from a Christian ecumenical and often feminist perspective.
About Blog WIT is a shared blog by women trained in the academic disciplines of theology who write from a Christian ecumenical and often feminist perspective.
About Blog WIT is a shared blog by women trained in the academic disciplines of theology who write from a Christian ecumenical and often feminist perspective.