In a similar fashion it would chronicle the development of modern theology to identify a clear trend toward the open avowal of
the radical human autonomy that.
Not exact matches
Radical autonomy, to the extent of insisting that I can dispose of my life, is part of a vision of
human life in which we exist for ourselves and our personal enjoyment.
• A raw individualism that conceives «freedom» as
radical personal
autonomy because it thinks of the
human person as a twitching bundle of desires, the satisfaction of which is the full meaning of «
human rights» and the primary task of government.
I call these figures humanocentric theists because the assertion of
radical human freedom /
autonomy is given a theistic base.
The crucial significance of religious humanism for new turns in religious thought consists in its illumination of
radical freedom /
autonomy as the essence of
human reality and its program to construct a systematic theology / philosophy on the exclusively anthropological foundation of the functional ultimacy of humankind as the theological singular.
It is my contention that the central affirmation of humanism, the functional ultimacy of the
human being — i.e., the
radical freedom and
autonomy of humankind — is materially a formative category of contemporary theology.