Sentences with phrase «term public theology»

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As scholars such as Christian Brugger have argued, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, most particularly in its revised form, seems to treat the death penalty, not primarily in terms of the special public authority of government, but in terms of the moral norms generally used in Catholic moral theology to govern the use of force in private self - defense.

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.

Better to explain the nature of theology in terms of the church's life and mission as a community active in the public realm.