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Kinds of Theology Terms modified by Theology Selected AbstractsETHICS AND THE MARKET ECONOMY: INSIGHTS FROM CATHOLIC MORAL THEOLOGYECONOMIC AFFAIRS, Issue 2 2004Samuel Gregg The ethical dimension of market solutions to problems is often neglected by their proponents. This article examines the market from the standpoint of orthodox Roman Catholic moral theology. It illustrates how Catholic theologians have contributed to thinking about the market, draws attention to Catholicism's positive assessment of entrepreneurship, and outlines paths for future Catholic reflection on the market. [source] TOWARD A PNEUMATOLOGICAL THEOLOGY OF RELIGIONS: A PENTECOSTAL-CHARISMATIC INQUIRYINTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 361 2002VELI-MATTI KÄRKKÄINEN First page of article [source] HEALING,A CHALLENGE TO CHURCH AND THEOLOGYINTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 356-357 2001Christoffer H. Grundmann First page of article [source] POST-MODERN MISSION: A PARADIGM SHIFT IN DAVID BOSCH'S THEOLOGY OF MISSION?INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 353 2000Kirsteen Kim First page of article [source] EBION AT THE BARRICADES: MORAL NARRATIVE AND POST-CHRISTIAN CATHOLIC THEOLOGYMODERN THEOLOGY, Issue 4 2010MICHEL RENÉ BARNES My task in this article is to explore the question of the "place" of moral questions,questions of good and evil,in Christian faith, "faith" here being considered particularly as the content or narrative of belief. The thesis I will argue is that Christianity offers no substantial account or explanation of the origin(s) and nature of evil, that in a fundamental way Christianity is not concerned with offering such accounts, and that when the task of supplying accounts of the origin(s) and nature of evil is made central to the content or narrative of Christian faith that faith is made false: it is misunderstood. [source] ROADS TO RECONCILIATION: AN EMERGING PARADIGM OF AFRICAN THEOLOGYMODERN THEOLOGY, Issue 4 2010J. J. CARNEY The heart of contemporary African Christian theology is the notion of "reconciliation." Contextualizing this movement, the article begins by surveying the three major theological paradigms,inculturation, liberation, and reconstruction,that shaped post-colonial African theology. Drawing on the writings of Desmond Tutu, John Rucyahana and Emmanuel Katongole and three grassroots reconciliation ministries, I delineate four principles of African reconciliation theology: interdependence, prophetic advocacy, holistic transformation, and alternative Christian community. The article concludes by addressing outstanding challenges of memory, justice, brokenness, and pluralism and considers how the Catholic sacrament of reconciliation could offer further theological resources for the emerging paradigm. [source] MODERN SOVEREIGNTY IN QUESTION: THEOLOGY, DEMOCRACY AND CAPITALISMMODERN THEOLOGY, Issue 4 2010ADRIAN PABST This essay argues that modern sovereignty is not simply a legal or political concept that is coterminous with the modern nation-state. Rather, at the theoretical level modern sovereign power is inscribed into a wider theological dialectic between "the one" and "the many". Modernity fuses juridical-constitutional models of supreme state authority with a new, "biopolitical" account of power whereby natural life and the living body of the individual are the object of politics and are subject to state control (section 1). The origins of this dialectic go back to changes within Christian theology in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period. In particular, these changes can be traced to Ockham's denial of the universal Good in things, Suárez's priority of the political community over the ecclesial body and Hobbes's "biopolitical" definition of power as state dominion over life (section 2). At the practical level, modern sovereignty has involved both the national state and the transnational market. The "revolutions in sovereignty" that gave rise to the modern state and the modern market were to some considerable extent shaped by theological concepts and changes in religious institutions and practices: first, the supremacy of the modern national state over the transnational papacy and national churches; second, the increasing priority of individuality over collectivity; third, a growing focus on contractual proprietary relations at the expense of covenantal ties and communal bonds (section 3). By subjecting both people and property to uniform standards of formal natural rights and abstract monetary value, financial capitalism and liberal secular democracy are part of the "biopolitical" logic that subordinates the sanctity of life and land to the secular sacrality of the state and the market. In Pope Benedict's theology, we can find the contours of a post-secular political economy that challenges the monopoly of modern sovereignty (sections 4,5). [source] "RETROSPECT/PROSPECT": NOTES ON MODERN THEOLOGY AFTER TWENTY-FIVE YEARSMODERN THEOLOGY, Issue 1 2010KENNETH SURIN First page of article [source] THE REMARKABLE SUCCESS OF A MISNAMED JOURNAL: REFLECTIONS ON TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF MODERN THEOLOGYMODERN THEOLOGY, Issue 1 2010L. GREGORY JONES First page of article [source] POETRY AGAINST EVIL: A BULGAKOVIAN THEOLOGY OF POETRY1MODERN THEOLOGY, Issue 1 2009RYAN McDERMOTT The essay introduces Sergei Bulgakov's theology of creation and evil in order to develop a theology of language, conceiving language as the path along which humans receive their own givenness, but also participate in the creation of the world. Poetry's attention to the difficulty of language, its acceptance of artificial disciplines, and its nonrational mode of knowledge uniquely attune it to language's creative,and destructive,potential. Like a monastery for language, poetry enacts a linguistic askesis, schooling its language and its readers in conversion. The essay includes a close reading of Gjertrud Schnackenberg's poem, "Supernatural Love." A conclusion situates the essay's program for a theology of literature in relation to Henri de Lubac's work on spiritual exegesis and Hans Urs von Balthasar's use of literature in his theology. [source] THROUGH A DIFFERENT LENS: RETHINKING THE ROLE OF SEXUAL DIFFERENCE IN THE THEOLOGY OF HANS URS VON BALTHASARMODERN THEOLOGY, Issue 1 2009BARBARA K. SAIN Sexual difference plays a pivotal role in Balthasar's thought, as an analogy for the Trinity and as an analogy for the relation between Christ and the church. This essay examines the influence of the analogy of being on his interpretations of these analogies, his understanding of created masculinity, and his use of the language of sexual difference for the Holy Spirit. Ultimately many of Balthasar's best insights about human love as an analogy for divine love can be retained without connecting femininity uniquely with creation, and his trinitarian theology provides the best interpretive key for doing so. [source] ELECTION AND THE TRINITY: TWENTY-FIVE THESES ON THE THEOLOGY OF KARL BARTHMODERN THEOLOGY, Issue 2 2008GEORGE HUNSINGER A new and "revisionist" reading would argue that the later Karl Barth saw the existence of the eternal Trinity not as the ground and presupposition, but as the consequence of God's pre-temporal decision of election. A more "traditionalist" reading, on the other hand, as defended by this essay, denies that proposition. The texts adduced by the revisionists, it is argued, fail to make their case. More plausible, alternative readings are offered, counter-evidence is marshaled, and the deleterious theological consequences of the revisionist alternative are spelled out. Barth could not have adopted it without contradicting his most basic convictions. [source] BLONDEL, MODERN CATHOLIC THEOLOGY AND THE LEIBNIZIAN EUCHARISTIC BONDMODERN THEOLOGY, Issue 4 2007DAVID GRUMETT The category of substance is fundamental in Leibniz's philosophy, and conceived in specifically theological terms in his late correspondence with Bartholomaeus des Bosses. The exchange develops as a discussion of the bond of substance (vinculum substantiale) in the transubstantiated eucharistic host, but the bond also provides the basis for a general theory of universal substance. This eucharistic vision of the substance of the world is appropriated by Maurice Blondel as the basis of his philosophy of action, in which divine transforming activity is necessarily implied, and which he describes as a form of transubstantiation of both the subject of action and its material object. This Leibnizian-Blondelian theology of the divine transformation of the substance of the world provides eucharistic foundations for modern Catholic social teaching. [source] COMPARATIVE THEOLOGY AFTER LIBERALISMMODERN THEOLOGY, Issue 2 2007HUGH NICHOLSON This article first identifies two reasons for the current marginality of the theological sub-discipline of "comparative theology." The first is an awareness of the imperialistic character of the universalist (inclusivist and pluralist) theologies of the recent past. The second is the assumption that Christianity's relations with other religious are extrinsic to Christian identity. Drawing on Kathryn Tanner's critique of postliberalism, it argues that interreligious comparison is integral to a theology that recognizes the essentially relational nature of Christian identity. This recognition implies a continuous revision of Christian identity that checks the tendency to essentialize and thereby exclude religious "others." [source] THEOLOGY FROM A FRACTURED VISTA: SUSAN NEIMAN'S EVIL IN MODERN THOUGHTMODERN THEOLOGY, Issue 1 2007PHILIP J. ROSSI SJ Evil in Modern Thought, Susan Neiman's account of the intellectual trajectory of modernity, employs the trope "homeless" to articulate deep difficulties that affirmations of divine transcendence and of human capacities to acknowledge transcendence face in a contemporary context thoroughly marked by fragmentation, fragility, and contingency. The "hospitality" of the Incarnation, which makes a fractured world a place for divine welcoming of the human in all its contingency and brokenness, is proposed as locus for theological engagement with Neiman's appropriation of a Kantian sense of hope as the readiness to resist evil in a world seemingly bereft of welcome. [source] NOT EXPLANATION BUT SALVATION: SCIENTIFIC THEOLOGY, CHRISTOLOGY, AND SUFFERINGMODERN THEOLOGY, Issue 1 2006ANDREW MOORE The view that Christian belief is explanatory is widespread in contemporary theology, apologetics, and philosophy of religion and it has received particular impetus from attempts to correlate science and Christianity. This article proposes an account of explanatory thinking in theology based on the principle that theological explanations should be disciplined by the internal logic of Scripture. Arthur Peacocke's biologically construed Christology and Alister McGrath's argument that suffering is an anomaly in the Christian explanatory scheme are shown to yield theological results which are inconsistent with this principle. This article's theological argument complements philosophical criticisms of the view that religious belief is explanatory. [source] CHRIST AND HISTORY: HERMENEUTICAL CONVERGENCE IN CALVIN AND ITS CHALLENGE TO BIBLICAL THEOLOGYMODERN THEOLOGY, Issue 1 2005STEPHEN EDMONDSON When we grasp Calvin's emphasis on the covenant history in its theological and Christological aspects and the relationship of this emphasis to Calvin's humanistic understanding of history, then we can understand the convergence of the historical and the Christological senses in Calvin's reading of Scripture. This understanding of Calvin's approach questions modernity's narrow historiographical bounds for discerning Scripture's historical sense, opening us to a consideration of a wider array of practices. Brueggemann's historiographical suggestions about the importance of Israel's witness and practice for reading scripture both historically and theologically fall within this broader frame and are congenial to Calvin's work. [source] INTRODUCING MORAL THEOLOGY: TRUE HAPPINESS AND THE VIRTUESNEW BLACKFRIARS, Issue 1034 2010MARGARET ATKINS OSA No abstract is available for this article. [source] TAYLORING REFORMED EPISTEMOLOGY: CHARLES TAYLOR, ALVIN PLANTINGA AND THE DE JURE CHALLENGE TO CHRISTIAN BELIEF by Deane-Peter Baker THEOLOGY, PSYCHOANALYSIS AND TRAUMA by Marcus PoundNEW BLACKFRIARS, Issue 1024 2008GRAEME RICHARDSON First page of article [source] WATCHMEN RAISE THEIR VOICES: A TALLAGHT BOOK OF THEOLOGY edited by Vivian Boland OPNEW BLACKFRIARS, Issue 1017 2007GREGORY HEILLE OP No abstract is available for this article. [source] THE TRIUNE GOD: AN ESSAY IN POSTLIBERAL THEOLOGY by William C. PlacherNEW BLACKFRIARS, Issue 1017 2007TODD C. REAM No abstract is available for this article. [source] DECONSTRUCTING RADICAL ORTHODOXY: POSTMODERN THEOLOGY, RHETORIC AND TRUTH edited by Wayne Hankey and Douglas Hedley, Ashgate, Aldershot and Burlington, Vt, 2005, £50, Pp. xviii + 191 hbk.NEW BLACKFRIARS, Issue 1009 2006David Grumett No abstract is available for this article. [source] FROM LUTHER'S THEOLOGY OF THE CROSS TO NIETZSCHE'S PROBING FOR THE ÜBERMENSCH: GROWTH IN THE MODERN RHETORIC OF SELF-DOUBTING INTIMIDATIONTHE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 2 2009PATRICK MADIGAN First page of article [source] PHENOMENOLOGY, THEOLOGY AND PSYCHOSIS: TOWARDS COMPASSIONTHE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 4 2007GLENN MORRISON First page of article [source] FOUR THEORIES OF NEGATIVE THEOLOGYTHE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 2 2007BRUCE MILEM First page of article [source] NEW HORIZONS IN CATHOLIC PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY: FIDES ET RATIO AND THE CHANGED STATUS OF THOMISMTHE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 1 2006HAROLD E. ERNSTArticle first published online: 21 DEC 200 The author considers Pope John Paul II's 1998 encyclical, Fides et ratio, as bringing into view new horizons for Catholic philosophical theology by virtue of its endorsement of a constrained philosophical pluralism. Through a retrospective examination of the history of magisterial interventions as depicted in the encyclical, the author notes how a progressive openness to philosophical pluralism relates to the changed status of Thomism within magisterial teaching on the practice of Catholic philosophical theology. Fides et ratio describes an evolution in magisterial emphasis from proscription to prescription, which corresponds to change in the status of Thomism from an absolute to an exemplary norm. Attention to this decisive shift in the normative status of Thomism, as implied within the encyclical itself, provides both new illumination on the Pope's general intentions and new clarity with regard to some contested interpretive issues. Finally, the author highlights several new challenges that are implied by this development in magisterial teaching. [source] A NEW ,APOLOGIA': THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THEOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE WORK OF JEAN-LUC MARIONTHE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 3 2005Christina M. GschwandtnerArticle first published online: 15 JUN 200 First page of article [source] INCARNATIONAL THEOLOGY AND THE GOSPEL: EXPLORING THE MISSISSIPPI MODEL OF EPISCOPAL MEDICAL MISSIONS TO PANAMAANNALS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRACTICE, Issue 1 2010Robert P. Connolly This article explores the faith-based medical missions of the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi to underserved rural indigenous peoples of Panama. The Mississippi Model focuses on health care delivery and de-emphasizes conversion to a religious faith, an approach that some may classify as a faith-based community performing secular tasks. However, the Mississippi Model arises from incarnational theology, which,viewed from both historical and contemporary perspectives,argues against a secular categorizing of the mission clinics. Consistently, our interviews with missioners, participant-observations, and review of the Episcopal Church literature, both nationally and in Mississippi, suggest that mission performance is considered a practice of faith not distinct from other expressions of faith, such as liturgical worship. [source] Introducing Asian American Theologies,by Jonathan Y. TanDIALOG, Issue 3 2009Paul S. Chung No abstract is available for this article. [source] God and Some Recent Public TheologiesINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, Issue 2 2002Philip Ziegler This article addresses the ,ever widening' circle of theological writing concerned with the public character of theology. Specifically, it examines the work of two ,public theologians,: Linell Cady and Max Stackhouse, and it does so by focusing on the concept of God ingredient in their programmes for contemporary public theology. The article is an inquiry into the sort of theology such public theologies might be. It argues that an account of the identity and agency of God is of decisive significance for an account of the public character of theology. In keeping with its exploratory nature, it concludes with a series of questions regarding the work of Cady and Stackhouse and suggests an alternative way forward for public theology. It suggests a re-orientation of public theology ,on the basis of a more robust account of divine identity and divine agency cognizant of the possibilities afforded by the prevenient publicity of the God of the Christian gospel,. [source] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||