Don't expect to
find deep theology in the sermons.
Not exact matches
Some of us who have no
deep learning in history, but yet a sense of history,
found that assertive title — The New
Theology — a little ominous.
Now I understand the
deepest meaning of my earlier experience: God Himself had disavowed
theology and the Church
founded upon it...
Personally, I should
find it more helpful to quarry into the old logos
theology, and interpret it with a
deeper sense of man's historicity, than to cut off the doctrine of Christ so sharply from its roots as Dr. Altizer seems to do.
Relating
theology to life points to a
deeper note of relevance; namely, relating biblical truth to the numerous gray zones in which we
find ourselves.
An adequate Christian
theology of history and revelation maintains that only by trusting in the promise of history, without either fleeing it or nullifying it, do we
find a security proportionate to the incalculability of God's future, as well as to our
deepest human aspirations.