Sentences with phrase «rationalist theologies»
Apologetics has not had a good press for quite some time, owing partly to the rise of rationalist theology and partly to a decline in the use of scholastic philosophy in theological training.
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He described himself as a Christian rationalist in the tradition of Logos theology, which he interpreted through an Augustinian lens.
After the late Council there did take place in the centres of higher learning in the Church this wholesale jettisoning of the traditional wisdom of the Church, and I am bound to say that the undue subordination of all things to Ecumenism helped the process on, for the theology of the non-Catholic ecclesial communities has long been enervated by the same rationalist principles.
Theology has to insist upon its own perspective, prescinding from the rules of the game set by rationalists who, in their own act of faith, disbelieve in the mystery of Christian faith.
As I understand my assignment for this conference, it is to represent a «methodological alternative in process theology» that has been given the name «rationalist» so as to facilitate its distinction from two other such alternatives, the empirical and speculative so - called.
The presentation of experiential evidence which is a constitutive feature of any serious «methodological alternative» in theology thus proves necessarily to involve in quite distinct ways features one might variously call «empirical,» «rationalist,» and «speculative.»
On this question the speculative theologian agrees with the rationalist theologian (within, say, process theology), for one of the deepest commitments of the rationalist theologian is to generality as it is revealed in logical thought.
In contrast, other speculative process thinkers (in addition to the rationalists whom we shall describe in a moment) hold that «Christian process theology» is a misnomer for much of what is done by their speculative colleagues, as valuable as this work may be.
If Charles Hartshorne has been the leading process philosopher to articulate the rationalist perspective, Schubert Ogden has been the central thinker to contend for the necessity of metaphysical analysis for theological reflection through the development of his notions of faith, religion and theology.