McCormick thought that
our discussion of his Theological Studies article was a parody of his position, but then Fr.
Not exact matches
But it was a very unsatisfying attempt — to have weighty
theological questions determined by delegates who came together for a few days with little prior
study of the issues, who were sometimes inclined to suppose that such questions admitted
of «yes» or «no» answers, and who passed judgment after rather limited opportunity for
discussion and debate.
• In
Theological Studies a Jesuit who to the best
of my knowledge I have never met reviews Ian Markham's excellent book Plurality and Christian Ethics (see FT
discussion, «Truth and Tolerance,» October 1994).
In the inner
theological discussion we have listened to the voices
of those Christians who have immersed themselves in the
study of Christian anti-Judaism.
See also his
discussion of mysticism in Words and Images: A
Study in
Theological Discourse, pp. 42 - 45.)
At this point our
discussion of the institutionalization and polity
of a
theological school in chapter 8 comes to bear on the
discussion of a
theological school's course
of study in this chapter.
By engaging people in the effort to understand God by focusing
study of various subject matters within the horizon
of questions about Christian congregations, a
theological school may help them cultivate capacities both for what Charles Wood [2] calls «vision,» that is, formulating comprehensive, synoptic accounts
of the Christian thing as a whole, and what he calls «discernment,» that is, insight into the meaning, faithfulness, and truth
of particular acts in the practice
of worship (in the broad sense
of worship that we have adopted for this
discussion).
Although I fought for and achieved admission as the first woman to take the full program
of theological studies that was reserved for priesthood candidates, I could not imagine as my male colleagues did that I could become a theologian like Karl Rahner, Rudolf Bultmann or Rudolf Schnackenburg — decisively determining
theological questions and exegetical
discussions.
For excellent
discussions of the need to recover the empirical side
of the process tradition, see Lee, Bernard J., SM., «Two Process Theologies,»
Theological Studies 45 (1984), pp. 307 - 319; Axel, Larry E., and Peden, W. Creighton, eds., Dean, William, Special Guest Coeditor The Size
of God: The Theology
of Bernard Loomer in Context (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1987), also published simultaneously as the special January and May, 1987 issue
of the American Journal
of Theology and Philosophy, Vol.
Any adequate
discussion of the theme
of love
of God and neighbor and
of its relevance to Church and school requires all the resources
of the
theological curriculum from
study of the Scriptures through systematic theology, the philosophy, psychology and history
of religion, Christian and social ethics to pastoral theology, Christian education and homiletics.
Now they venture to report on what they believe to have learned in the course
of their
study and attempt to state what they think is the main content and meaning
of the long
discussion that is going on among
theological educators.
In any case, the purpose here is not to
study the British radicals but to describe this American
theological tradition and to ask under what conditions it might become part
of the very lively
theological discussion going on right now in this country.
This chapter present a case
study of a mid-nineteenth-century version
of the «Athens» type
of theological education that was highly honored, at least verbally, in some mid-twentieth-century
discussions of higher education generally, in order to draw attention to ways in which the material modifications it introduced have proved to be problematic.
Theological discussion and controversy over the historical
study of the Scriptures waxed warm.
(See the important
discussion, from a somewhat different viewpoint, by D.E. Nineham in Journal
of Theological Studies 9 (1958), 13 - 25; 243 - 52; 11 [1960], 253 - 64.)