I find that most people who reject
theology as irrelevant have never really taken the time to learn any real theology.
Not exact matches
«Liberation
theology is for the most part out of favor in Latin America because it has been largely deemed by indigenous people
as increasingly
irrelevant,» Raschke says.
The point is, we can't go around dismissing
as irrelevant those for whom our pet
theologies turn the good news into bad news.
The tendency was to see most of these «
theologies of»
as expressing the interests of discontented bourgeois and
as irrelevant to the truly pressing problem of liberating the oppressed.
To pass over this witness
as irrelevant for
theology is highly suspect, although much of the history of Christian
theology betrays just this oversight.
If someone wants to reject Christian
theology as dry, dusty, boring, and
irrelevant for modern life, they should at least make some effort to learn what it is they are rejecting before they reject it.
Yet they would feel not justified in regarding their result
as the last word of wisdom but would very definitely expect an appreciation and evaluation which puts these results in the proper perspective of a unified system of knowledge, philosophy, or
theology; and it is
irrelevant whether the latter task is performed in personal union with that of description so long
as the integrity of the latter is guaranteed.