What Is Analytic Theology?

2021 ◽  
pp. 48-78
Author(s):  
William Wood
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Constructive Theology ◽  
Intellectual Inquiry ◽  
Open Question

Chapter 5 considers the still open question “What is Analytic Theology?” In dialogue with Timothy Pawl and William Hasker, I argue that analytic theology is a form of faith seeking understanding and a form of constructive theology. I then consider some efforts to push analytic theology into comparatively neglected areas, including topics related to social justice. I focus especially on Sameer Yadav’s call for analytic liberation theology. I conclude the chapter with a bit of additional reflection on why analytic theology is valuable. Christians should agree that it is good to try to answer rational objections to key Christian doctrines, and similarly good to try to give positive models for how to understand them in a way that coheres with other things we take ourselves to know. Those tasks are perennial, and analytic theology is one way that Christians today can pursue them fruitfully. At the same time, however, I also think that there are non-Christian reasons for valuing analytic theology, reasons that anyone might accept. Intellectual inquiry is good. Focused thinking about terrifically difficult problems is good. Watching very intelligent people think as deeply and carefully as they can about things that matter to them more than anything else—that too is good.77 Analytic theology displays all of these goods, something that anyone can recognize, even without accepting the underlying Christian framework.

Liberation Theology and the Central America Solidarity Movement

2019 ◽  
pp. 95-126
Author(s):  
Sharon Erickson Nepstad
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Central America ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Central American ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
Revolutionary Movements ◽  
School Of The Americas

This chapter examines the conditions that fostered liberation theology in Latin America. The chapter provides a brief overview of liberation theology’s central themes and how it fueled revolutionary movements in Central America, particularly in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala. It surveys the Catholic hierarchy’s responses, ranging from sympathy to condemnation, and highlights several US religious movements that expressed solidarity with Central American Catholics who were fighting for social justice. These organizations included Witness for Peace, which brought US Christians to the war zones of Nicaragua to deter combat attacks, and also Pledge of Resistance, which mobilized tens of thousands into action when US policy toward the region grew more bellicose. Finally, the chapter describes the School of the Americas Watch, which aimed to stop US training of Latin American militaries that were responsible for human rights atrocities.

Interpreting the history of the Workgroup on Constructive Theology

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 312-324
Author(s):  
Jason A. Wyman
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
The State ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Constructive Theology ◽  
History Of ◽  
Vanderbilt University

This article narrates and interprets the history of the Workgroup on Constructive Theology. Founded in 1975 at Vanderbilt University and composed of many of the most well-known and influential progressive Christian theologians in theology throughout its existence, the Workgroup has served as an organizational center for the development of constructive theology and a place where its key methodological and thematic proposals have been nurtured and propagated. Constructive theology acknowledges the constitutive discursive role theologians play in constructing Christianity, rather than supposing that theology describes an objective, external religious reality. It is interdisciplinary in its approach and is employed toward progressive, social justice ends. In order to understand the state of progressive Christian theology today and the direction it is heading, it is imperative to understand the rise and development of constructive theology as its own category, which is inextricably linked with the history of the Workgroup.

scholarly journals Are Engineering and Social Justice (In)commensurable? A Theoretical Exploration of Macro-Sociological Frameworks

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon A. Leydens ◽  
Juan C. Lucena ◽  
Jen Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Social Conflict ◽  
Engineering Profession ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Structural Functionalism ◽  
Open Question

The degree to which engineering and social justice as fields of practice are (in)commensurable remains an open question. To illuminate important dimensions of that question, we explore intersections between those fields and two macro-sociological frameworks. Those theoretical frameworks—structural functionalism and social conflict—represent contrasting perspectives on how society should be organized. Specifically, we reveal conceptual alignments between structural functionalism and engineering/engineering education and between social conflict and social justice. Those alignments suggest some salient potential catalysts for tensions between engineering and social justice and provide a useful ideological mirror for reflection by all who are committed to the engineering profession and/or to social justice.

‘There is a Reason’: A Call to Re-Consider the Relationship between Charity and Social Justice

Exchange ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elina Hankela
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Bright Future ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Vital Element

Contemporary academic discourse on social justice increasingly urges the elision of aspects of ‘charity’ from the concept. Writing in the context of liberation theology discourse in particular, the author agrees with the need to prioritize social-justice-centred frameworks but argues for an explicit theorization of (true) charity as a vital element within them. The argument is informed by ethnographic engagement with a group of young, low-income Zimbabwean migrants in Johannesburg. It is inspired in particular by attending to how charitable action features in their narratives as a source of dignity and motivation that enables them to work towards a bright future, as well as contributing towards their day-to-day survival.

scholarly journals AGAMA DAN POLITIK: TEOLOGI PEMBEBASAN SEBAGAI ARENA PROFETISASI AGAMA

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 133
Author(s):  
Wasisto Raharjo Jati
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
The Relationship

<p class="IIABSBARU">This article aims to analyze the comparative study of the liberation theology perspective. The notion of liberation theology is a form of transformative theology that concerned within issues of equality and social justice. The relationship amidst religion and politics is reciprocal due to there are conflicts of interest between both entities. Emergence of liberation theology itself arises because of the politicization of religion has become more acute and chronic so it needs to be transformed. The thought of liberation theology is basically grown in the famous case of Latin America with the spirit church of the poor. However, within Islam, it also found a similar essence that Islam also teaches that there egalitarianism, equality, and social justice. Article will elaborate about this comparison of liberation theology.</p><p class="IIABSBARU" align="center">***</p>Artikel ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis studi perbandingan perspektif teologi pembebasan. Gagasan teologi pembebasan adalah suatu bentuk teologi trans­formatif yang bersangkutan dalam isu-isu kesetaraan dan keadilan sosial. Hubungan di tengah-tengah agama dan politik adalah timbal balik karena ada konflik kepentingan antara kedua entitas. Munculnya teologi pembebasan itu sendiri timbul karena adanya politisasi agama telah menjadi lebih akut dan kronis sehingga perlu diubah. Pikiran teologi pembebasan pada dasarnya tumbuh dalam kasus terkenal Amerika Latin dengan semangat gereja kaum miskin. Namun, dalam Islam, itu juga menemukan esensi yang sama bahwa Islam juga mengajarkan bahwa ada egalitarianisme, kesetaraan, dan keadilan sosial. Pasal akan menguraikan tentang perbandingan ini teologi pembebasan.

Liberation Theology and Social Justice

1985 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew L. Lamb ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Liberation Theology
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