Sentences with phrase «theology as a crisis»

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He begins with the now - familiar thesis that the planet is in ecological crisis due to human rapaciousness, advances his theological revisionism as essential to the cure, and ends with the dire warning that unless a program like his is adopted it will be seen soon enough that «Christian theology is ecologically bankrupt.»

In order to be a «moral crisis» (as anyone who has taken Moral Theology knows, which apparently Mohler has not) a «moral (or immoral) act, MUST involve a «decision».

His approach to the problem of life and the beginnings of his «theology of crisis» were made when as a minister he first realized the utter impossibility of communicating to his hearers the faith by which he himself was animated.

It is only as theology and as the church can communicate to men a message that is relevant to their felt needs, frustrations, fears, hopes, and dreams that each can play an effective role in the present crisis.

Many types of groups exist, e.g., a depth Bible study group to stimulate the maturing of functional theologies; groups to aid preparation for normal crises such as retirement, middle age, marriage, childbirth (Caplan calls these «emotional innoculation groups»).

The question around which the crisis in most modern theology revolves can be summed up as that of immanence and transcendence, the historical and the timeless, the relative and the absolute.

Also Eduard Thurneysen, Dostojewski, Kaiser Verlag, Munehen, 1930 (E. T. John Knox Press, 1906), an extreme and verbose but illuminating study of Dostoevsky as a forerunner of the theology of crises.

[1] The Pope sees his proposal in the context of his whole pontificate as a commitment by the Church to «lead people out of the desert» [2] of «a profound crisis of faith» (Porta Fidei, 2), but there is also a sceptical challenge from those who perceive an intent to impose a backward - looking theology, a «hermeneutic of retrenchment».

In the last few pages of the book he speaks frankly about the «serious crisis» suffered by concept of «Traditio», the «deep wound which the Church is experiencing after Vatican II», owing to the refashioning of the understanding of Revelation from the conceptual, propositional approach of Vatican I and scholastic theology to the notion of Revelation as experience and encounter, leading to «a displacement of the dynamic aspect of revelation to the detriment of the noetic», «a gap between truth and love» and a «strong subjectivism».

A third approach was articulated by a group who came to be known as Christian Socialists, who were led by F. D. Maurice (1805 - 72), who was Professor of Theology at Kings College, London, from 1846 until he was dismissed when his Theological Essays (1853) provoked a crisis because he questioned the teaching of eternal damnation.

I believe there is no way of averting this identity crisis once the epistemological privilege of the poor is recognized and theology is understood as a praxis.

As we haveseen with the aid of Saint Augustine's pastoral theology itself refined in the crucible of an ancient ecclesial crisis, that prayer in its original form gave authentic voice to the lay faithful's indispensable role in ecclesial reconciliation.

They were killed because they supported the liberating theology and dignity of the base Christian communities; they named social injustice, not communism or outside subversive influence, as the root cause of the crisis (revolution in their view was inevitable unless issues of poverty and social inequality were adequately addressed); they promoted a negotiated settlement to Salvador's civil war, including a significant role for the FMLN and other popular organizations; and, they named U.S. policy as a fundamental obstacle to peace in El Salvador.

As Geoffrey Wainwright exclaims: «If the Western world is experiencing a crisis in lyric poetry, liturgy, and theology, the simultaneity of these critical manifestations should not be surprising.»