Sentences with phrase «theology of his culture»

It was the late Paul Tillich who, more than anyother modern theologian, introduced Christians to the need for a theology of culture.

Paul Tillich's theology of culture, Rudolf Bultmann's demythologization, today's death - of - God theology are all adaptations of Christianity to what is conceived of as the nature of man and modern society.

Keillor's theology of culture is eminently comforting.

Perhaps if one can see the close analogy between a psychoanalytic interpretation of society and Paul's theology of culture, a new way toward an understanding of the message of the apostle may emerge.

Paul Tillich, «Two Types of Philosophy of Religion», in Theology of Culture, Oxford University Press 1964.

The centrality of the symbol in Tillichian theology and the new criticism was one among several reasons why literary criticism and the theology of culture found in each other a fruitful dialogue partner.

To answer this question adequately would require setting it in the context of an entire theology of culture, but we can briefly indicate the primary points of such a theology and how it would encompass a theology of aesthetics.

The contributions on the one hand of Biblical, historical and systematic theology, of history, the sociology of religion and the theology of culture; and on the other, the practical experiments and experiences in ecumenical, national, municipal and parish organization of church life, will, one may hope, eventually be brought together in some kind of temporary historical synthesis.

It requires what might best be called «theology of culture,» theological reflection on critical implications of cultural change for congregations» practices, and it calls for envisioning possible constructive reshaping of a congregation's practices insofar as they are ways in which the congregation tells its story in and to its host culture.

It is not the same kind of «yes» that one finds in that tradition of theology of culture today that makes use of the world as illustrations for its doctrines of sin and redemption.

To engage in the critique itself is to do theology of culture, and to undertake «prophetic» judgment of congregations» common life.

Much of his work was in the theology of culture, and he interpreted Christian faith as a formative ingredient of that culture more than as an individual appropriation of saving truth.

Theology of culture is the question of cultural liberation of the people for their cultural freedom and creativity and their cultural identity and community.

(Paul Tillich, Theology of Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 1959), Christianity can avoid the trap of arrogant exclusivism by recognizing that pathways to new qualities of awareness also exist in other religions.

Religion will be again what it is essentially, the all - determining ground and substance of man's spiritual life» (from Theology of Culture, edited by Robert C. Kimball [Oxford University Press, 1959] p. 8).

Not exact matches

In some sense, it smelled of a culture reforming theology without the explicit biblical anchor.

In fact, the Tanach is very clear to the Jews that the only covenant they have (and will ever have) is the one pounded out between G - d and the Jews on Mt. Sinai (which, if you read the fine print AND the NT is allowed to be understood / interpreted by designated leaders in the Jewish society; Jesus believed those people to be the Pharisees and told his JEWISH followers to adhere to Pharisee teachings... the Pharisees were the honorable, compassionate end of the theology spectrum in the first century instead of the bad rap they get from a mis - reading of the NT (done generally with no comprehension of Jewish culture or history).

Vitz observes that, doctrinal objections aside, it is «bizarre to the point of pathology at this time in our culture to be trying to remove God the Father from our theology.»

Doctrine for the pluralists is the expression of Christian teaching as worked out by some appropriate theology and expressed in terms adequate to the culture of the day.

By exploring themes of philosophy and theology in his work through the formal qualities of space, line, and color, Adams engages Christ and culture in his art.

The kind of reasonable, sound THINKING theology and religious / faith ideas those of us as are here talking about, simply doesn't lend itself to a pop culture.

Or Shane Hipps, who said: «Within the forms of media and technology, regardless of their content, are extremely powerful forces that cause changes in our faith, theology, culture and ultimately the Church.»

----------------------- Actually, I want to address this one too because it betrayes a lack of understanding of Jewish culture and theology.

org), Lizzie's church leaders made a brave and courageous statement: «In the light of this tragedy it is now incumbent upon the PCC and the wider Church to prayerfully reflect on, and examine, our theology, systems and our culture so that we can do all we can to prevent a tragedy like this from ever reoccurring.»

This most recent theology no longer addresses the doubts and questions of faith raised by the community of faith but the doubts and questions of the contemporary cultured ignorers of faith.

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I learned this not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman at a well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said of the woman who anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.

You're not helping people if you're not alienating them,» said Miller, the Gudorf Chair in Catholic Theology and Culture at the University of Dayton in Ohio.

Dr. McDougall reviews suggests several books on feminist theology with emphasis on Serene Jones's Feminist Theory and Christian Theology: Cartographies of Grace and Mary Grey's Sacred Longings: The Ecological Spirit and Globaltheology with emphasis on Serene Jones's Feminist Theory and Christian Theology: Cartographies of Grace and Mary Grey's Sacred Longings: The Ecological Spirit and GlobalTheology: Cartographies of Grace and Mary Grey's Sacred Longings: The Ecological Spirit and Global Culture

The revelational rap against apologetic theology is that it either engages in a sellout to the «world» (the self - disclosure of God being so utterly relativized by human wisdom that Christians are unable to tell atheists anything that they don't already know), or it is an exercise in various intellectual imperialisms, such as: «We can prove the existence of God» or «If human culture really understood itself, it would find that it is striving toward that which we already have.»

God is Uncategorized Bible & Theology Topics: culture, inspiration of Scripture, John 5:39 - 40, prophecy, religion, Theology of the Bible, When God Pled Guilty

Editor's note: Vincent Miller is the Gudorf Chair of Catholic Theology and Culture at the University of Dayton.

Delores Williams is associate professor of theology and culture at Union Theological Seminary in New York City and a contributing editor of Christianity and Crisis.

Though acknowledging significant divergences between the Thomist schools and Holloway's thought, the editorial argued that Holloway had remained faithful to both the intentions of the Magisterium, which looks to St. Thomas as the theologian and philosopher par excellence, and to the essence of St. Thomas» project because he had attempted to synthesise theology with the scientific culture of his day.

Original Sin: A Cultural History by Alan Jacobs HarperOne, 304 pages, $ 24.95 Chesterton said of original sin that it «is the only part of Christian theology that can really be proved»» by which he meant empirically demonstrated in every era, in every culture, and in every human....

In addition to publishing ten issues of First Things each year, the Institute hosts educational programs that promote religiously informed analysis of culture, society, theology, and politics.

There is little doubt that the concern for cultures and religions expresses the middle class social location of most process theologians, whereas the focus on political and economic issues and the concomitant demand for justice express the identification with the poor that is the glory of liberation theology.

This kind of event is breaking news to only two kinds of people: those who have no inkling whatsoever of historic Christian theology, and those who expect religious conviction always to yield to pop culture.

An outstanding example of theology as hermeneutics is the work of David Tracy, especially The Analogical Imagination: Christian Theology and the Culture of Pltheology as hermeneutics is the work of David Tracy, especially The Analogical Imagination: Christian Theology and the Culture of PlTheology and the Culture of Pluralism.

For many socially responsible seminarians in the late 1970s, liberation theology was the only show in town, the only show in a culture that seemed unwilling even to consider the social challenges of the gospel.

It is possible to speculate that if Christianity had begun in a culture less dualistic and antiphysical than that of the first - century Mediterranean world, it might have been willing, given the more holistic anthropology and theology of its Hebraic roots, to extend its body metaphor to God?

Most radical theology in our time seems to be moving toward a fully secular theology — toward a virtual identification of faith and culture.

In a Church culture in which personal engagement with the Bible is sometimes patchy, worship songs and hymns become a primary source of theology for some.

Christian Theology and the Culture of Pluralism.

The secular theologians mentioned above hold a Promethean theology, one that celebrates the hubristic, self - assertive, autonomous man in search for the «sacred» as a fulfillment of our present secular culture.

Robert K. Johnston, Ph.D., is Professor of Theology and Culture, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena CA 91182.

For too long, Christianity has been hijacked by the culture and imperial theology of the Roman Empire.

Theology professor Andrey Shirin wrote that the legislation, which significantly restricts all non-Orthodox congregations, reflects the historic ties between religion and Russian culture: «This intentional connection between church and state allows the Orthodox Church to enjoy all the attendant privileges of political preference and feeds into a uniquely Russian national identity.»

These three characteristics of our culture — interior restlessness, excessive curiosity and instability of purpose — are described in classical moral theology as the offspring of acedia.

We have had theologies of liberation, of women's experience, of Judaism, of culture, of religion, of the body, of worship, of humor, of play, of work, of institutions, of the church, of the world, and so on, and so on.