I love studying, reading, and writing about theology, but I have found that living
my theology helps in ways I never could learn from a book or a blog.
Not exact matches
When we think about the role of reading
in our spiritual formation, we generally think of non-fiction books that
help us understand scripture and
theology, but fiction powerfully shapes the
ways in which we think faithfully about God and the world.
I think
theology can
help us do this, but sometimes
theology just gets
in the
way.
I trust dialogue between black and neoclassical
theology will be
helped some - what if I were to offer an African - American perception of the
way in which it is possible to conceive without contradiction or confusion that God is both the subject of all change (G - of - A), and the God of the oppressed (G - of - O).
We still need to do
theology as well
in those
ways, but the Bible will
help to remind us to keep those operations both subordinate to the larger imperatives of the life of the body and relativized by their greater subservience to the demands of one's respective host culture.
Consequently, process
theology is
helping to pave the
way into new and still largely unexplored realms of interpretation of the nature of man's ethical life under God
in this present world.
Can His Noodly Appendage
help in any
way with you understanding the fields of Sadofuturistics, Megaphysics, Scatalography, Schizophreniatrics, Morealism, Sarcastrophy, Cynisacreligion, Apocolyptionomy, ESPectorationalism, Hypno - Pediatrics, Subliminalism, Satyriology, Disto - Utopianity, Sardonicology, Fascetiouism, Ridiculophagy, or Miscellatheistic
Theology?
Recognizing these assumptions about
theology and epistemology
helps to explain why Protestants
in the United States keep repeating traditional
ways of thinking about «truth.»
Such an examination may go some
way toward
helping us understand why the idea of revelation has been set apart by
theology for special treatment
in the first place.
From the George Fox Web site:
In a time when «evangelical» has more of a political connotation than a convictional connotation, we need bright voices that can help sort through the noise and imagine a way forward for those who call themselves evangelical Roger E. Olson is professor of theology at Truett Theological Seminary in Waco, Texa
In a time when «evangelical» has more of a political connotation than a convictional connotation, we need bright voices that can
help sort through the noise and imagine a
way forward for those who call themselves evangelical Roger E. Olson is professor of
theology at Truett Theological Seminary
in Waco, Texa
in Waco, Texas.
Process
Theology is rather complex and it isn't the subject of this sermon, but let me tell you about it briefly, just enough so you can see how Process
Theology helped me think about God
in a new
way.
If the basic task of
theology is to
help locate new contexts
in which the word of God can be encountered, then theologians have much to learn from the
way Christian poets, both ancient and modern, have created such contexts.
The mission of Art &
Theology is to
help the church rediscover its rich heritage
in the visual, literary, and musical arts and to open it up to the activity of contemporary artists, whose giftings can enable us to see God
in new and different
ways.