God

2021 ◽  
pp. 232-246
Author(s):  
Douglas F. Ottati
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Doctrine Of God ◽  
Images Of God ◽  
Creative Contribution

Interpreters sometimes read Niebuhr as an ethicist whose writings are shaped by an anthropology rather than by theology or a doctrine of God, but this is too simple. Niebuhr’s understanding of God is marked by his turn toward myth and a relational core theology keyed to biblical images of God as Creator, Judge, and Redeemer. Though neither systematic nor as extensively developed as his anthropology, theology remains integral to his thinking. A doctrine of God is present implicitly in Niebuhr’s work even where not articulated explicitly, and it makes a creative contribution to Christian theology. Indeed, it ought to be developed further, especially with respect to aspects of religious experience and a sense of hope.

IMAGINATION AND METAPHOR IN THEOLOGICAL LANGUAGE

2020 ◽  
pp. 48-63
Author(s):  
Svetlana A. Konacheva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Religious Language ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Western History ◽  
Theological Hermeneutics ◽  
Images Of God ◽  
Language Interpretation ◽  
Human Understanding ◽  
Theological Language

The paper investigates the religious language interpretation in the contemporary continental philosophic theology. The author presents the central role of the imagination and metaphor in theological language. The diacritical hermeneutics of Richard Kearney is analyzed as an example of the theological language transition from the theologics to theopoetics. Modifications in the theological language are associated with transformations in the understanding of theology itself, which becomes a topological and tropological study. It considers the interpretation of imagination in Kearney’s early works, his attempts to describe “paradigmatic shifts” in the human understanding of imagination in different epochs of Western history. The author highlights mimetic paradigm of the pre-modern imagination, productive paradigm of the modern imagination and parodic paradigm of the postmodern imagination. Analysis of Kearney’s “biblical” interpretation of imagination allows one to understand the imagination as the point of contact of God with humanity. She also considers how Ricoeur’s theory of metaphor influences the development of the poetic language in postmodern Christian theology and demonstrates that poetic and religious languages are brought together by an “imaginative variations”. The author argues that turning to imagination in religious language allows theological hermeneutics to move from the static to kinetic images of God.

The Doctrine of God in Christian Theology

2019 ◽  
pp. 42-62
Author(s):  
Joshua J. Knabb ◽  
Eric L. Johnson ◽  
M. Todd Bates ◽  
Timothy A. Sisemore
Keyword(s):  
Christian Theology ◽  
Doctrine Of God

Experiencing the Spirit

2020 ◽  
pp. 48-79
Author(s):  
Simeon Zahl
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Temporal Specificity ◽  
The World ◽  
The Holy Spirit

This chapter argues that a constructive recovery of the category of “experience” in Christian theology is best accomplished through the lens of the theology of the Holy Spirit. Thinking about experience in terms of the work of the Holy Spirit helps specify what we mean when we talk about Christian “experience,” while also avoiding the problems that arise in appeals to more general concepts of “religious experience.” The chapter shows how a pneumatologically informed theology of experience draws attention to a problematic tendency towards abstraction and disembodiment in much modern systematic theology. It then argues that the work of the Spirit is likely to take forms that are “practically recognizable” in the lives of Christians in the world, exhibiting temporal specificity as well as affective and emotional impact, and that pneumatologies that cannot take account of such practically recognizable effects are deficient.

scholarly journals The Trinity in African Christian theology: An overview of contemporary approaches

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Teddy C. Sakupapa
Keyword(s):  
Christian Theology ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
African Theology ◽  
Doctrine Of God ◽  
Concepts Of God ◽  
Theological Discourse ◽  
Primary Literature ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
The Trinity

This contribution offers a survey of the modern African theological discourse on the Trinity as a distinctive Christian doctrine of God. It is a systematic narrative review of primary literature on the doctrine of the Trinity in modern African theology with a view to identify main trends, key concepts and major proponents. It is argued that the contemporary African Trinitarian Hermeneutics cannot be understood in isolation from African debates on translatability of concepts of God framed first in terms of the reinterpretation of the theological significance of pre-Christian African concepts of God and subsequently as an outcome of African Christological reflection. The article affirms an apophatic resistance to any tendency to take God for granted as recently advanced by Ernst Conradie and Teddy Sakupapa.

scholarly journals SABOREAR A FÉ EM MEIO À PLURALIDADE OS CAMINHOS DA TEOLOGIA EM MEIO AO DIÁLOGO INTER-RELIGIOSO

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (99) ◽  
pp. 221
Author(s):  
Maria Clara Lucchetti Bingemer
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Present Text

O presente texto procura pensar o estatuto da teologia cristã no atual contexto de modernidade, secularização e pluralismo religioso. Após fazer uma breve análise do percurso do pluralismo religioso na história do cristianismo, desde suas origens, o texto propõe a centralidade da experiência religiosa e da espiritualidade como caminho fecundo para que a teologia possa reelaborar-se a si mesma em atitude de abertura e diálogo com as outras formas de crer e as outras tradições que formam o tecido religioso do mundo contemporâneo.ABSTRACT: The present text seeks to reflect upon the statute of Christian theology in the following actual contexts: modernity, secularization, and religious pluralism. After briefly analyzing the itinerary of religious pluralism in the history of Christianity since its origins, the text proposes the centrality of the religious experience and spirituality as the fertile path by which theology may re-elaborate itself with an attitude of openness and dialogue with other forms of believing and other traditions that are woven into the religious fabric of the contemporary world.

scholarly journals The Gnostic Influence on Psychology: Effects of the Common Heresy

1982 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Schweigerdt
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Doctrine Of God ◽  
The Common ◽  
Dark Shadow

Judeo-Christian theology has been plagued throughout its history by heresy concerning, among many things, the doctrine of God and of human nature. Psychology, possessing a generally fluid doctrine of human nature –- from the dualistic to the holistic, from the analytical to the existential, from the “dark shadow” to the supreme good –- has also been plagued by anthropological heresy. This article tentatively suggests that historical psychology has built its anthropology upon philosophical presuppositions in the tradition of the Gnostic heresy.

The Doctrine of God in Christian Theology

2019 ◽  
pp. 21-41
Author(s):  
Joshua J. Knabb ◽  
Eric L. Johnson ◽  
M. Todd Bates ◽  
Timothy A. Sisemore
Keyword(s):  
Christian Theology ◽  
Doctrine Of God

scholarly journals God and Religion in the Postmodern World

1991 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-172
Author(s):  
Eric A. Winkel
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Process Theology ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Western Thought ◽  
Logical Conclusion ◽  
Dynamic View ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Persuasive Arguments ◽  
New Religion

Griffin's larger program in God and Religion in the Postmodern Worldis to develop a process theology able to meet the challenges and opportunitiespresented by science and modernity. This process theology draws extensivelyon the work of Whitehead and Hartshorne and essentially entails destroyingmodernity as an ideology while retaining certain parts of the scientificworldview, returning to some aspects of premodernity (such as the view ofenchanted nature), and creating a holistic, pluralistic, dynamic view of thenature of God and humanity.Besides this program, Griffin develops a number of insightful ideas.Getting around the problem of describing a phenomenon like postmodernism,which wants to preclude all closure and definition, Griffin makes the casethat destructive postmodemism is really ultramodernism, modernism carriedto its logical conclusion. This avoids the confusion of "constructive" postmodernthought.Griffin also makes the case for panentheism, as opposed to pantheismor the absolute dichotomy popular two or more centuries ago among Christiantheologians. Throughout the book, Griffin puts forward many original andinsightful ways of looking at Western thought, Christian theology, and therise of modernism. These insights deserve to be explored; they certainly shouldstimulate fruitful discussion.The major problem of Griffin's work for the Muslim is his desire, andthat of process theologians as a whole, to create a new religion. Huston Smithaddresses this issue in a forthcoming work where the two debate this andother issues. (I look forward to reading this book.) Griffin is not sufficientlyaware of the perennial perspective, which makes me predict that Huston Smithwill offer quite persuasive arguments against process theology. This perspectiveholds that no meaningful religious experience can take place without agrounding and foundation in a divinely revealed tradition. Islam has beencompleted and protected by Allah Himself in the form of the Qur'an andthe Sunnah, and so we need not create a new religion to appreciatepremodernity or to destroy modernity. It is the task of Islamic scholars toengage the issues Griffin brings up, a project which will surely lead us torediscover ideas and processes in our heritage which may be fruitfully ...

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