If you get a chance to read it after I get it posted you can tell
us what kind of theology you think it is.
Not exact matches
For one
of the most frequent emphases in contemporary
theology, and consequently in a good deal
of contemporary preaching, is that there is (
what is styled) an absolute «difference in
kind» between the sell - expression
of God in and through any and every man, and that which was accomplished in Jesus Christ our Lord.
By contrast the second
kind of argument mounted under the banner
of process hermeneutics supports a claim that such - and - such a tenet
of process
theology is «Biblical
theology» in the sense
of being compatible with
what some Biblical texts say on a theological topic.
«We are trying to say
what role does
theology play in forming digital culture - in enabling digital culture - but also in
kind of protecting us against that digital culture.
I am proud
of what I have contributed to this
kind of greening
of theology.
I refer to new ideas in physics, chemistry, physiology, philosophy,
theology, all
of which are pertinent to the religious significance
of Darwinism.3
What many seem not to understand is that the crux
of the religious issue is not between fundamentalism — which I recall no one whose intelligence I greatly admire defending — and evolution, but between two
kinds of theism and two
kinds of evolutionism.
What I can't stand are the present - day, praise choruses that reflect a Jesus - is - my - boyfriend
kind of theology.
More important, the family resemblances among the different
kinds of postliberal
theology are getting thinner as the protegés
of Frei and Lindbeck rethink
what it means to say that Christianity is true.
What then will demythologizing mean for these two
kinds of theology?
You wrote: but
what Kaiser fails to understand is that it is exactly the
kind of theology he presents in this book which has caused most
of those people to leave the church and give up on God.
Kaiser thinks this is a bad thing (I think it is good), but
what Kaiser fails to understand is that it is exactly the
kind of theology he presents in this book which has caused most
of those people to leave the church and give up on God.
God's Revelation can in fact and in principle concern realities which themselves are accessible to secular experience
of a scientific or historical
kind, so that on the one hand
what Revelation states about them is open to possible threat
of an eventual at least apparently opposed discovery
of secular science and on the other hand natural science must in principle always reckon on a possible veto on the part
of theology (Cf. Denzinger 1947 ff., 2187).
The arguments against evolution have been so explicitly and thoroughly expounded in the Catholic
theology of the last eighty years, that it is not to be expected that later on they will become even more evident, in relation to the Church's awareness
of what she believes, than they are now, and so become capable
of providing new and certain grounds for rejecting the theory
of evolution
of a
kind that have been declared to be not yet at present available.
Writing about «Harbor Seals,» also from The
Theology of Doubt, Holden said the poem «charms the reader, even as it tempts the reader into a corner... that will require the reader to make a moral choice as well as to reconsider many other
kinds of choices about
what to «believe.»
Two recent books on
what may be called «environmental
theology,» one rooted explicitly in the Christian tradition, the other in a
kind of loose deism, reveal an oft - overlooked theme
of modern environmentalism.
None
of the liberation
theologies can do their work in the
kind of academic isolation characteristic
of what has been considered the normative tradition.
Let me then conclude with the words
of Rabindranath Tagore, a great modern poet
of India, to say
what kind of feelings and excitement the venture
of contextual
theology could bring to our hearts:
The academy can applaud this
kind of pluralism, but it can not approve
what is
theology's ultimate scandal in the academy.
This
kind of criticism is an illustration
of what some theologians mean when they insist that the revelation
of God in Jesus Christ is the central fact that should furnish the basis for Christian
theology.
These days, pantheism rarely defines a whole way
of life (which is
what any true
theology should do, and does do for a real Socratic or a real Buddhist), but it's a
kind of stress relief from the competitive marketplace that is so much
of most successful lives.
What kind of theory is
theology?