In other words, do
liberal theologians come to the table completely objectively?
Not exact matches
As a young
theologian, he was horrified when in 1914 his professors,
liberal Protestants to the last, signed a declaration of support for the Kaiser and the
coming war.
I do find it puzzling, however, to watch
theologians, both conservative and
liberal,
come to the defense of the human, the rational, objectivity, the «text,» «moral values,» science, and all the other conceits the modern university cherishes in the name of «humanism.»
It was not without reason that 19th - century
liberal theologians revolted en mass against the orthodox Anselmian doctrine of atonement that taught that the only ultimately compelling reason for Christ's
coming was that he might suffer his substitutionary, sacrificial, expiating, even propitiating death.