Sentences with phrase «theology as a corrective»

(ENTIRE BOOK) A brilliant analysis of Bonhoeffer's theology as a corrective of Karl Marx's Critique of Religion.

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Its imagistic character means it stands as a corrective to the bias of much constructive theology toward conceptual clarity, often at the price of imagistic richness.11 Although it would be insufficient to rest in new images and to refuse to spell out conceptually their implications in as comprehensive a way as possible, the more critical task is to propose what Dennis Nineham calls a «lively imaginative picture» of the way God and the world as we know it are related (Nineham, 201 - 2).

Bonhoeffer's theology functions as a corrective of Marx's criticism of religion.

It is here that Bonhoeffer's theology is brought in as a corrective of Marxist critique of religion.

To pick (somewhat at random) another example of how sound philosophy acts as a corrective to unsound theology, we could imagine someone holding the opinion that bilocation (as experienced by some saints) implies the simultaneous location of a person (body and soul) in two places at once.

Thus, according to Zimmermann, the postmodernist critique of autonomous reason, including the notion of deconstruction itself, was foreshadowed in an important strand of early Reformation theology, one that puts an emphasis on epistemic humility as a corrective to the temptation to idolatry.