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Christian Ethics and the Human Person: Truth and Relativism in Contemporary Moral
Theology by Peter Bristow, Family Publications & Maryvale Institute, 384pp,...
Like the first position, it defines
theology by reference to the nature and specific purposes of professional Christian church leadership and not by reference either to faith or to experience of personal relationships in general.
In contrast, Hough and Cobb have defined
theology by reference to the mission and common life of an institution that in its God - relatedness is inescapably located in the public realm in which it may be more or less active.
Brueggemann presents
his theology by using the theme of a trial or courtroom drama.
But I do not intend to criticize nineteenth century Indian
theology by heaping on it research from the last decade of the twentieth century.
Stiles uses process insights to broaden Wesleyan
theology by recognizing the role of the aesthetic in theology.
Such a theology strains the meaning of «political», but it can and should conform to all those features originally proposed in the characterization of political
theology by Metz, Moltmann and Sölle, and it carries forward its essential spirit.
The «social gospel», transmitted to American
theology by Walter Rausenbusch earlier in this century, drew much from Enlightenment theology but little, if anything, from pietism.
The Church of Christ: A Collection of Essays by Monsignor Joseph C. Fenton by joseph clifford fenton edited with an introduction by christian d. washburn cluny, 362 pages, $ 25.95 Laying the Foundation: A Handbook of Catholic Apologetics and Fundamental
Theology by joseph clifford fenton....
Is our orderly arrangement of
theology by ideas rather than by actions a strength or a weakness in Christian theology?
It is not
a theology by the people — the oppressed and suffering — who would not certainly employ the tools and resources of the upper castes and classes.
In that respect I am trying to resist the professionalization of theology, which I consider a Babylonian captivity of
theology by the Enlightenment university.
Barth, Derrida, and the Language of
Theology By Graham Ward Cambridge University Press, 258 pages, $ 54.95 The Gift of Death By Jacques Derrida, Translated by David Willis University of Chicago Press, 115 pages, $ 18.95 Though Jacques Derrida is perhaps France's best - known living philosopher,....
Even those who have remained most faithful to the doctrine have modified some of the cruder forms of the «second blessing»
theology by reaffirmation of the more subtle classical Wesleyanism, with its themes of growth and process in sanctification.
The World in the Shadow of God: An Introduction to Christian Natural
Theology by Ephraim Radner Cascade, 169 pages, $ 20 This world «continuously displays the life of God.»
Rather, he suggests features of such
a theology by playing off of the strengths and weaknesses of his polar extremes.
The God of Israel and Christian
Theology By R. Kendall Soulen Fortress, 195 pp.
Walter Kasper explains that the statement that «God Himself is dead,» which goes back to an old Lutheran hymn, was taken back into
theology by Karl Barth and Bonhoeffer, who agreed at least on this - that «the religious presupposition that is lacking in contemporary irreligious society» affords the human race the opportunity for a «true recognition of our situation before God.»
Saint Teresa might have had the nervous system of the placidest cow, and it would not now save her theology, if the trial of
the theology by these other tests should show it to be contemptible.
«Only in Self - Relative Act can there be Self - Reflexive Terms which are Necessary and Subsistent Relativities, which are best named as «Persons» in human language, and which again are much better reflected than in the language of technical
theology by the titles of «the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.»
The clear and lucid presentation of Catholic
theology by St. Thomas Aquinas who established rationally cogent principles for the discovery of truth, suddenly seemed shaky.
By resisting the colonization of
theology by philosophy or any other discourse, Barth prefigured the postmodern critique of all universalizing or «totalizing» discourses.
What does it mean and how can we get better
theology by properly understanding the word saved?
The unique Christian participation in God's kingdom is grasped in
theology by creative and critical understanding of Christian tradition, and by creative and critical growth in the Christian ways of life.
It overthrew the dominance of
theology by its appeal to a different kind of reasoning from that which informed the University of Paris.
The proper priority can not be restored in an integral Christian
theology by eliminating concern for or belief in personal immortality.
It deals with Christology and the doctrine of God, as well as prayer, the resurrection, heaven, etc. and it provides a general introduction to Whitehead's thought.128 The Task of Philosophical
Theology by C. J. Curtis, a Lutheran theologian, is a process exposition of numerous «theological notions» important to the «conservative, traditional» Christian viewpoint.129 Two very fine semi-popular introductions to process philosophy as a context for Christian theology are The Creative Advance by E. H. Peters130 and Process Thought and Christian Faith by Norman Pittenger.131 The latter, reflecting the concerns of a theologian, provides a concise introduction to the process view of God together with briefer comments on man, Christ, and «eternal life.»
It is evident, then, that Bonhoeffer had no intention of constructing
a theology by eliminating the living God of the Bible after the manner of the death - of - God theologians.
St. Augustine criticized this political
theology by demonstrating that there are ends beyond the state which it can not serve.
The latter would compromise relational
theology by enervating it of its potential contributions to the tradition.
God of Abraham By L. E. Goodman Oxford University Press, 384 pages, $ 49.95 A sustained argument for natural
theology by a first - rate philosopher who also knows the Jewish tradition.
How to Read Karl Barth: The Shape of
His Theology by George Hunsinger Oxford University Press, 298 pages, $ 32.50 There are two types of guidebook to a major gallery.
Book Review: With the Grain of the Universe: The Church's Witness and Natural
Theology By Stanley Hauerwas.
Saving and Secular Faith: An Invitation to Systematic
Theology By B.A. Gerrish (Fortress, 153 pp.)
Reclaiming Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The Promise of
His Theology by Charles Marsh Oxford University Press, 195 pages, $ 35 cloth, $ 14.95 paper.
There is an equal danger that Thomist - leaning philosophical theology could have a similar effect in a different direction, trying to save
theology by modernizing Aquinas.
This led him to a «futurist option» for
theology by conceiving of the kingdom of God and the Holy Spirit in terms of the future of God Himself.
After a sketch of the standoff between views of theology as something «objective» and views of it as something «subjective,» Wood concurs with Farley's reasons for rejecting the picture of theology as universally valid «objective» truths and factual knowledge.2 He also rejects another type of «objective» view of theology, represented by Hough and Cobb, which defines
theology by reference to the purposes of professional church leadership (93).
It would exercise some of the same freedom which Paul's and the other NT letters do when they refrain from any nostalgic attempts to play Galilee into
their theology by transforming the teaching of Jesus» earthly ministry into a system of theology and ethics [Krister Stendahl: «Biblical Theology, Contemporary,» Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (Abingdon, 1962), I, 428].
He boldly integrates this insight with his trinitarian
theology by conceiving of the biblical narrative as «the final truth of God's own reality» in the mutual relations of God the Father, His incarnate Son, and the eschatological accomplishment of their communion by the Spirit.
Yet it also remained anchored within the raison d'être of Christian
theology by not losing sight of its central topic of study and object of worship: Jesus Christ and his global mission in and through the Church.
We immediately notice the authority given to his constructive
theology by his devotion as a student of the New Testament.
The survey of
his theology by Walter Schmithals (Introduction to the Theology of Rudolf Bultmann [Augsburg, 1968]-RRB- successfully demonstrates how wide was his scope.