Sentences with phrase «dialectic theology»

Although Altizer's terminology is somewhat different, the dialectical method is ever present and strong; indeed, it is here more fully developed than it ever was in the German dialectic theology.

Altizer, on the other hand, has a Dionysian, fully dialectic theology that, by radical affirmation of the profane, goes beyond mere secularism and its Godlessness and discovers the sacred via a nonhubristic apotheosis.

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We were theologically literate — the subtle dialectics of Lutheran theology required doctrinal astuteness — and we had little use in our piety for emotionalism or enthusiasm.

Lutheran theology rests on the dialectic of law and gospel.

Theology as dialectic is what turns Farley's recommendations about theologia into a truly practical tTheology as dialectic is what turns Farley's recommendations about theologia into a truly practical theologytheology.

In fact, it is precisely in Farley's discussion of theologia as dialectic that one can see how Farley is trying both to bury the old practical theology of the fourfold pattern and to replace it with a practical theology of an entirely different kind.

But I now see more clearly — thanks to the voices of the new theologies allied with the welcome recovery of spirituality within theology — that in practice and thereby in theory this pervasive religious dialectic of manifestation and proclamation is best construed theologically as mystical - prophetic.

I think that we can do so only if we recover a foundational Theology — a doctrine of God — that is informed by a Judaic sense of the dialectic of divine distance and proximity, otherness and sameness, transcendence and immanence.

Any attempt to break loose from the path set out by Schleiermacher and to find a way in which to make the transcendent God our subject, rather than some aspect of ourselves, could be called an apophantic theology, standing as it does in that tradition of paradox or dialectic that marked the Cappadocian theologians and has always been a part of the theological tradition.

Third, the lecture will deal with a few of the methodological issues in the advocacy scholarship of liberation theologies and how this scholarship corresponds with the turn to dialectics and praxis in contemporary philosophical reflections on science.

Modernity, with its enthronement of «progress through technology» is, however, the concrete economic, social, political, cultural, and ecclesial orders against which liberation theologies direct their intellectual and religious dialectics.

The dialectic of communal experience and expression is foundational to all forms of liberation theology.

Regarding classical cultures as a dialectic of Christian theology and theoria, much work remains to be done in recovering the egalitarian and anti-imperialistic communities of reform - minded Christians, how their orthopraxis in communal experiences of repentance and inclusive wholeness envisaged an orthodoxy expressive of solidarity with the poor and outcast.

That this postulated freedom is indeed freedom according to hope is, to my mind, what the other two postulates which frame it signify (following the order of the three parts of the Dialectic of the Critique of Pure Reason, which runs from rational psychology to rational cosmology and to rational theology).

Just as theology should not extol literal meaning over the language of narrative, paradox, irony and dialectic, neither should it commit itself to one worldview over another.

His later dogmatic writings stifled the rhetorical dialectics and the polemic against religion that gave his earlier «crisis theology» its immense spiritual power.

Similarly I find his dialectic of past and future to be out of correspondence with reality, forcing him to reject not only the past but the non-eschatological future as positive elements in his theology.

You make the contacts, when you have time, and I'll open myself to the truly paradoxical language that the new theology will need to employ in the contemporary Christian dialectic.

Following a dialectic with Augustine, Aquinas, the Reformers, Barth and others about man as created in the image of God, the author offers process theology's response.

If Altizer has not already reduced theology to a naturalism, it still seems to be the goal of his dialectic, for God and man are moving toward a final coincidence which will be a dialectically attained identification of opposites — not a coincidence of juxtaposition or harmony or even of union.

«Revelatory» discourse is «poesis» which we, given the needed critical judgment, can receive and live out as «testimony» in turn.40 We will try to show that this dialectic, carried out over generations, closely corresponds in the retrospective mode to Ricoeur's account of Gerhard von Rad's «tradition history» and, looking forward, to the philosopher's understanding of Jurgen Moltmann's «theology of hope.»

Herewith the catalogue précis: «Examining the dialectics of decency and indecency and exploring a theology of sexual stories from the margins is the focus of Indecent Ttheology of sexual stories from the margins is the focus of Indecent TheologyTheology.

If the theology of the early Bush is Pauline, his more recent stance is Hegelian, but without the dialectic and with America, not Prussia, in history's starring role.