If such talk of truth makes my neighbor, the rabbi, uncomfortable — and I can understand how it might — I can only point out that Jesus is my sole reason for defending the rabbi against the onslaughts of either fascist politicians or
liberal theologians who will not embrace him until he becomes «rational» or «enlightened» in other words, something less than Jewish.
The trick to studying well is to steer clear of
liberal theologians who care little for truth, and would rather render the text in as «politically correct» a manner as possible.
Believers of different stripes have variously cast him as a socialist revolutionary (Terry Eagleton), a dreadlocked Rastafarian (Robert Beckford), a pacifist (Shane Claiborne), or a Rambo - figure ready for a scrap with
any liberal theologian who crosses his path (Mark Driscoll).
Not exact matches
Borg is a
liberal and I'd suggest to read a book which looks like a debate with the famous British
theologian: N.T. Wright «
who is Jesus» or something like that.
Two of the studies mentioned above are by David Gushee, a conservative moral
theologian who teaches at the Baptist Mercer University; another is by Wendy Farley, a
liberal theologian at Emory.
Robert Baden - Powell,
who was the son of the
liberal theologian Baden Powell, explicitly developed Scouting to teach boys brotherhood under God.
In his years of declining health, younger
liberal theologians had grown up
who were infected with a revolutionary, third - world «romanticism.»
Catholic
theologians who have questions about the teaching owe the Church, themselves, and their colleagues something more than
liberal posturing and point scoring in intramural debates.
This attitude, which has been widespread in non-Roman and non-Orthodox theological circles, is responsible for the contemptuous dismissal of those
theologians (sometimes conveniently tagged «outworn
liberals» or «old - fashioned modernists»)
who attempted in the past or
who still attempt in the present to employ in their work the insights of the process - philosophers.
As a young evangelical, I was looking for
theologians who could help me break the stranglehold of
liberal Protestantism and its faithless idea of religion as purely personal «sentiment.»
Who are the «
liberal»
theologians that now reside on the wrong side of the «post,» and why are they called «
liberal» rather than something else?
The idea of God continues to haunt the work of the radical
theologians, putting them in many ways closer to the new conservatives than to the
liberal revisionists
who busily analyze our experience in order to spin off plausible intimations of transcendence.