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Part of the answer lies in the cross-movement of theology and historical consciousness in this century.

The full - fledged arrival of historical consciousness in theology, best viewed in the often tortured, always honest, reflections of both Troeltsch and Lonergan, only heightened the need for new reflection in hermeneutics.

The principal advantage of accepting initially the assumptions of the historical consciousness in religious or theological discourse is that one is not committed from the outset to possibly meaningless language regarding some realm of the supernatural.

But the common Christian believer may intuit the threat of the historical consciousness in something like this crude way; the perceived threat can not be conjured away by unsupported exhortations for the believer to accept the modern world view.

The battle for historical consciousness in theology has been waged for over 150 years.

Even so, the fight for historical consciousness in mainline theologies seems basically secure.

Not exact matches

But Truth and Method moves steadily forward, past the preoccupation with the humanities, «horizons,» the «historical and aesthetic consciousness,» past conversation and language to its ultimate task, which is breaking down the «ontological prejudice» that modernity has housed in a thousand institutions.

(As a historical explanation it may be pointed out that the consciousness industry in Russia at the time of the October Revolution was extraordinarily backward; their productive capacity has grown enormously since then, but the productive relationships have been artificially preserved, often by force.

The black community in America has confronted the reality of the historical situation as immutable, impenetrable, but this experience has not produced passivity; it has, rather, found expression as forms of the involuntary and transformative nature of the religious consciousness.

Most prefer not to reveal that they support a completely new historical project, especially in the late stages of an epoch defined by mass consciousness and the priority of horizontal connectedness.

We can then highlight that element in every human instance of dependent origination that introduces freedom and moral responsibility and the temporal asymmetry so important to the historical consciousness.

Yet Bultmann still remains reluctant to interpret Jesus» present as based upon historical encounter: «This judgement of his about his present comes from his own consciousness of vocation; thus he creates it out of himself; and it is not, as was later the case in his Church, based upon looking back upon an event decisive for him.

No doubt the total vision promised by an apocalyptic form of faith is not yet present upon our historical horizon; for, immersed as we are in a fully profane consciousness, we would seem to have lost the very possibility of apocalyptic vision.

If human existence is reconceived in a radical historical consciousness, then the forms of love must be reconceived also.

We must ask whether the physical and historical continuity that evolutionary theory posits, in its picture of life and consciousness arising from a soup of chemicals, rubs out the hierarchical distinction of levels.7

The idea of progress was one form in which the new historical sense came to birth; but the historical consciousness can also be nihilistic, pessimistic, or realistic.

This means that through the internal creativity of the biblical perspective, joined with the modern historical consciousness which it helped to create, a new possibility has been opened up for reconceiving the meaning of God's being in relation to time and history.

But the fact, the great historical fact, still to be set forth in all its details and turned into cultural consciousness, is that science owes its very birth to that dogma.

For myself, certain early formative influences in the early «60s (biblical criticism, Bernard Lonergan's reflections on method and historical consciousness, and the splendid ambience of student days in Rome during the Second Vatican Council) solidified my own sharing in the common conviction that there can be no return to a pre-ecumenical, prepluralistic, ahistorical theology.

At the level of assumption, the historical consciousness is the awareness that every event or entity (including persons or religious traditions) possesses its own finite, historical context and can be explained exhaustively in terms of that context.

The historical Dalit consciousness in depicts even greater and deeper pathos than is found in the Deuteronomic Creed.

It not only helps them to come to terms with their historical consciousness, which is submerged in pathos and protest, but also to comprehend a God who in Jesus restores «humanness» to Dalits.

Using the Deuteronomic Creed as model, Dalit theology can construct the historical Dalit consciousness which has to do with their roots, identities and struggle for human dignity and «for the right to live as free people created in the image of God.»

The maturing of a collective consciousness accompanied by numerical expansion: these are two aspects inseparably linked in the historical unfolding of the Incarnation.

The second part of the book is theological rather than critical or historical, and it advances the claim that it is precisely the most radical expressions of the profane in the modern consciousness (Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Freud, Proust, Kafka and Sartre) that can be dialectically identified with the purest expressions of the sacred.

Ratzinger comments that the great synthesis found in the traditional Christian interpretation, «would become problematic when historical consciousness developed rules of interpretation that made Patristic exegesis appear non-historical and so objectively indefensible».

As with the other world religions, historical developments and the genius of the people who profess them are reflected in the type and degree of consciousness of solidarity in Christianity.

The Bible is viewed not only as an historical or canonical document, but as a description of the individual soul's journey of spiritual development and commentary on what happens when different states of consciousness interact with one another in the collective drama of human existence.

Indeed he can — because modern consciousness has important roots in the culture that preceded the Renaissance and the rise of modern science, as well as the rise of historical consciousness.

Hans Georg Gadamer, «Problem of Historical Consciousness,» in Interpretive Social Science.

Accordingly, «effective historical consciousness» becomes indispensable in summoning explanation as primordial understanding extends itself into interpretation and by the fusion of horizons attempts to render near what is far.

In most New Thought denominations a distinction is made between the historical person, Jesus of Nazareth, and the Christ consciousness he is believed to embody.

Consequently, any «effective historical consciousness» that might have emerged from their primordial condition of «belonging to» to make them aware of their distinctive vantage point and to open their horizon to the otherness of the story may have been suppressed by the perspective of their hierarchical position in the Tiv polity.

«Effective historical consciousness» operating in and through philological and historical investigation, augmented by the social sciences, will elucidate the horizon of the text and explicate the socio - cultural idiosyncracies of its repertoire.

Moreover, America is a deep site of this ending, for America is the furthest extension of modernity, and whereas the historical limitations of European self - consciousness precludes in fact the realization of its own demand that God actually die, the complete actualization of the death of God occurs for the first time in the American consciousness (page 596).

Hegel's Phenomenology is often judged to be the most revolutionary of all philosophical works, and it is clearly revolutionary in understanding consciousness itself as a consistently and comprehensively evolving consciousness, evolving from the pure immediacy of sense - certainty to absolute knowing, and this evolution is internal and historical at once.

And as this historical consciousness began to emerge, the question of meaning in history arose along with it.

In either case a claim for experience is being made, whether at the historical or the redactional level: that religiousness can be a social neurosis which blocks the healing of others and oneself, and that its resistance to healing arises from the splitting - off and repression in oneself and in society of what is unacceptable to consciousness (hence the role of forgiveness in the storyIn either case a claim for experience is being made, whether at the historical or the redactional level: that religiousness can be a social neurosis which blocks the healing of others and oneself, and that its resistance to healing arises from the splitting - off and repression in oneself and in society of what is unacceptable to consciousness (hence the role of forgiveness in the storyin oneself and in society of what is unacceptable to consciousness (hence the role of forgiveness in the storyin society of what is unacceptable to consciousness (hence the role of forgiveness in the storyin the story).

His article, «Science Three, Religion Zero,» asserts with a confidence wondrously uninhibited by learning that religion has been done in by the Copernican revolution, evolutionary theory, and historical - critical consciousness.

people and congregations are blown to and fro by the winds of secularization, but unlike the students they have little or no experience of historical consciousness applied to faith, hence must live in a changed world by means of antiquated pieties and timeworn concepts of authority, morality and the Bible.

What would be involved in teaching seminary students — assuming that the seminary's goal is its graduates» success in importing historical consciousness to Christian congregations?

And for those theological students who first knew the faith only in authoritarian, biblicistic or pietistic forms, study of it by way of historical consciousness proves a liberating experience.

If historical consciousness has in fact brought about a liberating way of studying and living the faith, surely it should not he kept from the churches.

In my opinion, historical consciousness affects the interpretation of the Christian faith in a more far - reaching way than the Reformation affected Catholic ChristianitIn my opinion, historical consciousness affects the interpretation of the Christian faith in a more far - reaching way than the Reformation affected Catholic Christianitin a more far - reaching way than the Reformation affected Catholic Christianity.

It is remarkable how often he takes ideas developed by those who assumed that the civilizing of humanity and the emergence of the historical consciousness are some kind of progress, agrees with them, and then shows how this has in fact been a deepening of alienation.

The rationale for process theology evolved from philosophical critiques of Augustine's attempt to combine the living God of the Bible with the changeless being of neo-platonic metaphysics and reframed the doctrine of God in relation to a contemporary view of nature and the new historical consciousness.

Just as the prophetic reformulation of Israel's earlier traditions generates a form of historical awareness, so our critique of the pretensions of consciousness in the critical study of texts gives us historical sense.

«47 And third, it is through this work of reinterpreting its own traditions that Israel as a community develops a historical consciousness, thereby becoming a historical reality, if it is true, as critical scholarship suggests, that Israel did not exist as a unified entity until the amphictyonic period after the settlement of Canaan, then we can say that «by elaborating this history as a living tradition, Israel projected itself into the past as a single people, to whom occurred, as to an indivisible totality, the deliverance from Egypt, the revelation on Sinai, the wandering in the desert, the gift of the Promised Land.

To account for this priority of historical testimony over self consciousness, I would refer you to the description Kant gives of «aesthetic ideas» in the Critique of Judgment.

Clearly, the understanding of these matters that underlies the demand for justice in the specifically political sense is closely related to our distinctively modern historical consciousness, by which I mean our consciousness of ourselves as historical subjects who bear full responsibility for creating ourselves and one another in and through our creation of society and culture.