Sentences with phrase «sociological theology»

The interaction of sociological theology and ecological theology can lead to an ecologically sensitive sociological theology and a sociologically sensitive ecological theology.

Even if the philosophical differences are not overcome, sociological theology and ecological theology need one another.

Sociological theology needs ecological theology in order to widen its horizons to the actual situation of the majority of the human population who face an increasingly desperate and neglected plight in their rural villages.

Because of its tendency to see what is happening now in a temporally extended context, it needs sociological theology to remind it of the immediate importance of the present suffering of a single child.

The gap between such a new sociological theology and a new ecological one will be narrowed.

Unless it breaks fundamentally from the Kantian tradition, even an ecologically sensitive sociological theology can not acknowledge this inherent reality and worth of our fellow creatures.

22 That this is so, and, especially, how this is so, may be clearer from the ecological perspective than from the sociological, but it remains a true and important point about human society, which sociological theology need not and should not continue to neglect.

Ecological theology needs sociological theology because left to itself it does not deal realistically with the actual structures of power whose exercise will determine human destiny.

Sociological theology has focused on questions of justice, but as it has recognized that the effects of human beings on their environment are having seriously deleterious consequences for humanity, it has extended its concern to questions of the sustainability of human society.23 Yet in practice the difference of the amount of attention given to these two issues of justice and sustainability still leads to opposing judgements on important issues.

This chapter proposes that the horizons of political theology should be so broadened that it can be formulated as an ecological theology rather than as a sociological theology.

Not exact matches

The pluralism and relativism built into this sociological approach are the latest substitutes for the theology of law and the orders of creation that framed the ethical discussions of the church in the past.

Personally, I've got a better theology of ministry on Good Friday («Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures»), with all sorts of sound sociological, psychological reasons for death and defeat, than I have a pastoral theology robust enough for Easter («He was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures»).

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.

His criticism did not focus directly on liberation theology itself, but on the philosophical Marxism it employs as a sociological tool.

In his address «Christianity, Marxisn - Liberation Theology,» prepared for his United States tour this past spring, Pannenberg declared his strong opposition to Marxism and by implication any theology that appeals to Marxism for philosophical or sociological Theology,» prepared for his United States tour this past spring, Pannenberg declared his strong opposition to Marxism and by implication any theology that appeals to Marxism for philosophical or sociological theology that appeals to Marxism for philosophical or sociological insight.

In fairness to Girard, I must say that he realizes very clearly that the key to the whole problem is found in the Prologue of John, but he writes in the genre of sociological theory rather than the genre of theology, which prevents him from speaking as freely as he might of the Incarnation of the Word of God in human history.

As with other fields of sociological research the question has been asked if there is good enough reason to treat socioreligious phenomena separately instead of handling them in the traditional disciplines (theology, philosophy, anthropology, etcetera).30 Yet, as against such doubts, the work done by modern scholarship has proved the right to an independent existence of «sociology of religion.»

That several books or bodies of literature of crucial importance for theology appeared in close proximity to one another still impresses me as coincidental or providential rather than subject to a single sociological explanation.

But for sociological reasons that I only vaguely understand, theology briefly became a public discussion.

(Historical, psychological, sociological, and phenomenological investigations proceed along descriptive lines; philosophy and theology are normative.

While the character of certain movements and groups is to a large extent defined by sociological criteria, such as the earlier so - called Frontier religion or now the Buchmean (Oxford group) Movement, which Allan Eister has recently analyzed in his book Drawing Room Conversion, we find that the more definitely a religious group is a religious group — as distinct from an economic, political, or cultural association — the more important, both for members of the group and students of it, will become its worship and its theology.

Section III shows that without altogether ceasing to be anthropocentric sociological theory can become much more sensitive to ecological issues and that ecological theology needs to be informed by sociological understanding.

Kaplan's analysis of Jewish nationalism begins with the Bible, the Talmud, the Midrash, and medieval Jewish theology, while simultaneously freely utilizing modern sociological and philosophical insights.

If we agree with him, he has given a strong sociological reason for including theology in a research university; but the very notion of a research university seems necessarily to exclude theology.

One can point to the emergence of a variety of critical approaches to religion in general, and to Christianity in particular, which have contributed to the breakdown of certainties: These include historical - critical and other new methods for the study of biblical texts, feminist criticism of Christian history and theology, Marxist analysis of the function of religious communities, black studies pointing to long - obscured realities, sociological and anthropological research in regard to cross-cultural religious life, and examinations of traditional teachings by non-Western scholars.

And understanding how theology can respond to sociological problems enables us to view the future with hope, as Ellul does.

Seeing the sociological realities that motivate the author's theology helps us grasp his emphases.

The tenor of present liberation - theology reflection is often excoriated as too political or sociological.

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A succinct theological critique of the sociological approaches of Hans Mol (classical functionalism), Max Weber (pluralist / symbolic sociology), and Karl Marx (conflict sociology) can be found in Baum's «Three Theses on Contextual Theology.»