Sentences with phrase «more public theology»

With so much of our individual lives revolving around theology we did not want to impose more public theology on our private life together.

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Similarly, Public Health theology takes to heart Reinhold Niebuhr's warning that it takes more than moral man to transform immoral society.

I'm actually glad about it because it gave liberation theologians an opportunity to share about liberation theology in a more public way.

In varying degrees, most of them want practical theology to become more critical and philosophical, more public (in the sense of being more oriented toward the church's ministry to the world rather than simply preoccupied with the needs of its own internal life), and more related to an analysis of the various situations and contexts of theology.

Since I have not in fact» «changed my mind» in any basic way on the availability, of a positive response to all three questions, I will here move on to the more difficult question of the public nature of systematic theologies.

Indeed, a «sociological imagination» is slowly transforming all theologies — sometimes with unsettling and explicit power, as in the use of critical social theories in political and liberation theologies; sometimes with more implicit but no less unsettling effect, as in the increasing use of sociology of knowledge to clarify the actual social settings (or publics) of different theologies.

An ethic of virtue and character — either in its more Christian form, as in the theology of Stanley Hauerwas (A Community of Character [University of Notre Dame Press, 19821), or its more secular form, as in Alasdair McIntyre's After Virtue (University of Notre Dame Press, 1982)-- can never advance convincing reasons in public conversation.

James A. Nash of the Churches» Center for Theology and Public Policy vigorously attacks Derr's alleged indifference to the inherent integrity of nature, and Richard John Neuhaus, agreeing with the gist of Derr's argument, calls for a more thoroughly Christocentric understanding of the creation.

Michael Hanby's «A More Perfect Absolutism» (October 2016) is public theology in the critical mode, as are portions of Laudato Si».

It has a properly confessional and hermeneutical stance before its ecclesial public, and it would be helpful if process theologians saw it more clearly as a distinctive endeavor, which is neither philosophical nor practical theology.

But to equate storytelling with theology and thereby to justify regurgitating one's own autobiography for public consumption is more often than not an ego trip.

Every movement to make America more fully realize its professed values has grown out of some form of public theology, from the abolitionists to the social gospel and the early socialist party to the civil rights movement under Martin Luther King and the farm workers» movement under Caesar Chavez.

Yet Jefferson's hope for a national turn to Unitarianism as the dominant religion, a turn that would have integrated public theology and the formal civil religion much more intimately than was actually the case, was disappointed and public theology was carried out predominantly in terms of biblical symbolism.

«Liberty» is as close as we get to an ethical norm, and that term is deeply ambiguous, depending on whether it is, in John Winthrop's words, freedom to do the just and the good (Christian freedom) or freedom to do what you list (the freedom of natural man).10 While American civil religion remained extremely vague with respect to particular values and virtues, the public theology that fleshed it out and made it convincing to ordinary people used it with more explicitly Christian, particularly Protestant, values.

In contrast, Hough and Cobb have defined theology by reference to the mission and common life of an institution that in its God - relatedness is inescapably located in the public realm in which it may be more or less active.

More seriously, we saw, it is open to the objection that it fails to show how theology bears on the public dimensions of human life; in this view, theology seems confined to the private realm of the interiority of consciousness.