Just before Pope Leo X excommunicated Luther in early 1521, the provincial theologian had elaborated his Ninety - Five Theses into
a new system of theology.
Not exact matches
There are
systems of theology like that — probably every
theology developed as a
system is like that — but the
New Testament
theology is not one
of them.
As traditional
theology was a relatively well defined
system, the same in certain basic respects — despite all sorts
of philosophical and ecclesiastical differences — in Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Maimonides, Leibniz, Calvin, Immanuel Kant, and some schools
of Hindu thought, so the
new theology which many be contrasted with the old is found more or less fully and consistently represented in thinkers as far apart as William James,... Henri Bergson, F. R. Tennant,... A. N. Whitehead,... Nicholas Berdyaev,... and in numerous others
of every brand
of Protestantism, besides a few... Roman Catholics.
The past half century or more has been a period
of both confusion and daring innovation in the world
of academic
theology, with various great thinkers trying to work out
new theological
systems.
One must ask the question as to whether these
newer systems of thought and Islam as it got filtered through them perceived God - man;
theology - anthropology poles differently than did their conservative antecedents living within the sterile Semitic environments.
Borg has taken some ancient texts written long after the apostolic authorship
of the
New Testament and created a
theology and belief
system bent on dscrediting Jesus» Messianic claims and the Messianic claims his followers made
of him.
For all his warnings about the hubris
of theological
systems, his dogmatic
theology looked like a massive
new scholasticism.
Unlike philosophy
of religion and
theology, however, the history
of religions does not «indorse» any particular
system offered by the diverse religions
of the world, nor does it advocate, as many ultra-liberals think it ought, any
new universal synthetic religion.