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Selected AbstractsThe Missional Shape of Worship in Evangelical Lutheran WorshipDIALOG, Issue 2 2008Thomas H. Schattauer Abstract:, Mission stands out as an orienting concept in ELW unlike its predecessors. ELW has a missional theological framework as well as a practical missional orientation, a situation in which worship and mission are understood and practiced in relation to one another. It is possible that ELW will help congregations claim the missional character of worship. [source] The Form of the Matter: Heidegger, Ontology and Christian EthicsINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, Issue 3 2001Brian Brock Martin Heidegger's late thought on technology raises a potent set of observations regarding the relationship of technology and ontology. Oliver O'Donovan is shown to have similar concerns to Heidegger on this topic, concerns which he addresses from within a theological framework which places technological making within the guiding role of created order. Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics II/1 account of the perfections of God is applied to sharpen O'Donovan's account of natural knowledge, clarifying the relation between natural and redeemed understandings of the normativity of the form of matter. [source] CAN A GIFT BE WRAPPED?THE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 3 2006JOHN MILBANK AND SUPERNATURAL SOCIOLOGY Do secular sciences provide theology with a neutral description of reality, as raw material for theology to reflect upon? Or, on the other side, can theology be considered a full-blown social theory? What would a ,supernatural sociology' imply and look like? This essay addresses these questions following the insights of John Milbank. This British theologian has challenged mainline modern assumptions with his ,radical orthodoxy' project, stirring a fruitful debate not exempt from polemical exchanges. This essay offers a presentation of Milbank's position, followed by a detailed and critical analysis of his views. The author then offers a theological framework within which to reconceive Milbank's proposal, extending some of his own claims regarding Karl Barth, Henri de Lubac, and Clodovis Boff. Finally this essay explores the possibilities, the scope, and some examples of what a ,supernatural sociology' might look like. [source] The ,Origin' of Evil according to Anselm of CanterburyTHE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 2 2002Daniel Deme Theological debate about the origin of evil derives from the quest after God's goodness and justice. This problem can be constructively discussed only within the framework of a universe that has been created good, and within a corresponding anthropology. Anselm's enquiry proceeds much along these tracks, and is based on the premises of the Platonic-Augustinian view of evil as the privation of good, yet it concludes with a reference to the domain of the irrational and contradiction in which such a discussion must necessarily harbour. The strength and uniqueness of his approach lies in his well defined hermeneutical and epistemological framework: his definition of theology as fides quaerens intellectum on the one hand, and his concept of ordo et pulchritudo universitatis on the other. The aim of this article is to discuss Anselm's answer to the origin of evil in a wider context of his definitions of freedom and theology, trying to consider the issue, as Anselm does, from the point of view of the doctrine of Creation by the Word. His argument will be considered from the standpoint of Systematic Theology, which will enable us to contrast it with the thought of modern thinkers. Therefore the goal of this writing is not primarily to show how unique Anselm's solution is in the history of dogma, but rather to highlight the uniqueness of the manner of his elaboration of this problem within his own theological framework. [source] | ||||||||||