A dualistic theology of the Christian life inevitably results in a disembodied spirituality.
The book of I Peter reads like a source - book for
the dualistic theology of Victorian Protestant churches as well as new sects like the Mormons.
Not exact matches
If we also keep in mind Isaiah 45:7, this divergence in
theology becomes explainable and the contradiction is exposed for what it probably is; a shift in the
theology of the Hebrews, influenced by the
dualistic Persian religion at the time of the Persian's conquest of Babylon in around 539 BCE.
Alex — my view is that male - centred dogmatic
theology sets up a
dualistic and paternal way of perceiving ourselves that is maintained to keep control.
Also the oppositions to a
dualistic separation of mind and body or «mane and nature are comparable in the two movements.10 Process
theology and feminist
theology today overlap in a healthy way, and there is every indication that feminists will play leading roles in the further development of process
theology.
See Jantzen's fine study on the
dualistic, antimatter context of early Christian
theology (Jantzen, chap.
It is possible to speculate that if Christianity had begun in a culture less
dualistic and antiphysical than that of the first - century Mediterranean world, it might have been willing, given the more holistic anthropology and
theology of its Hebraic roots, to extend its body metaphor to God?
Modern
theology is far more
dualistic than Medieval or Patristic
theology, and these are more
dualistic than the Bible.
Dualistic deposits in Christian
theology are themselves partly responsible for the feeling of cosmic homelessness that underlies our present environmental crisis.
Evangelical
theology and practice tended also to be more clear - cut, almost
dualistic in its concepts.
Process
theology is thus a thoroughgoing incarnational
theology standing in strong contrast to the triumphalist,
dualistic, monarchical and patriarchal God of much classical
theology.
Most Insightful: Julie Clawson with «Embodied
Theology» «When faith is all about a
dualistic escapism, it sadly allows no room for mercy.
Christian
theology has operated in
dualistic and exclusivistic categories, and many Christians continue to subscribe to these.
But so too did the repressive authoritarianism of post-Tridentine Catholicism, the emergence of a Catholic ecclesiology inimical to true communitas by its overemphasis on clerical power and centralized authority, and the acceptance into Catholic
theology, philosophy, and anthropology of a
dualistic Cartesianism every bit as inimical to the medieval intellectual and moral synthesis (if such a thing can be said to have existed) as anything that emerged from Wittenberg or Geneva.
It is possible to speculate that if Christianity had begun in a time less
dualistic and antiphysical than was first century Mediterranean culture, it might given the more holistic anthropology and
theology of its Hebraic roots, have been willing to extend its body metaphors to God.
The resulting
theology is deeply
dualistic.
A Christian
theology that continues to operate in
dualistic and anthropocentric ways is part of the problem and not part of the solution.
If there was any common agenda for the twentieth - century biblical
theology movement it was to sort out Greek from Hebraic, individualistic from communal,
dualistic from holistic, and otherworldly from this - worldly elements in biblical thought.