Not exact matches
My disagreements with the five
points of both Calvinism and Arminianism iare not exactly with their
theology or understanding
of Biblical texts, but with something much more basic than that: their definition
of certain biblical words and theological ideas, such as election, grace, salvation, atonement, justification, eternal life, forgiveness
of sins, etc, etc..
Perhaps the most important theological
point in this essay is that neoclassical theism, according to its own principles
of method, must — given the reality
of oppression — join black
theology in affirming a
certain priority for the conception
of God as God
of the oppressed.
What is more, he surpasses Hegel from a
certain point of view — a
point of view which is precisely essential for our present dialogue between a
theology of hope and a philosophy
of reason.
The Greek idea
of the impassability
of God at
certain crucial
points won out in his
theology, which ironically found its soteriological focus in the sacrifice
of the God / Man.
T.M.Philip's essay in it on «A History
of Baptismal Practices and
Theologies»
points to a wide variety
of practice and understanding that existed in the churches from NT times and says that the historical perspective would help us «to maintain a
certain flexibility and openness in the light
of the new questions and challenges presented by our present historical situation».