... to investigate both the legitimacy and sharpness of the question. In revelation, Christian theologians tend to argue that it is God who enables this depiction of what is there in a new way. The discussion traces various ways in which this insight is being responded to in modern theology. The reductionist...

... entity establishes a valuable theological contrast with determinate entity theisms such as personal theism and process theism – two ideas of God prominent both in modern theology and in the contemporary science–religion dialogue. References and Suggested Reading Barrow, John D. , and Tipler, Frank...

..., Schleiermacher launched the project of modern theology. Berlin Bonaparte Napoleon Carlsbad Decrees 1819 De Wette W M L modernity modernization Old Testament Prussia Welch Claude Wöllner Johann Christoph and religious edict of 1788 Zscharnack Leopold Enlightenment French Revolution historical...

... understood and described the stakes of this problem in a strikingly effective manner and that his constructive proposal for a modern theology that could provide such a doctrinal account is a coherent and indispensable concept for properly understanding his theology. I call this concept Troeltsch s...

... pastoral advice holiness comprehensive church early modern theology ministry contempt of the clergy rule of life godliness In another of his Salisbury walks [George Herbert] met with a neighbor minister; and after some friendly discourse betwixt them, and some condolement for the decay of piety...

... as a theologian t­he division is not one between history and theology. But neither is it one simply between the theology of the Fathers over against work in modern theology or on modern theologians. Such a divisions would contradict Andrew s very conception of the manner in which engagement with the Fathers...

... oppositions are overcome, such that one can have faith that one’s life ultimately hangs together; and (d) of what such faith would have to be like in order for one to identify with it, too. So understood, modern theology not only sheds light on faith’s potential role in enabling persons to identify...

... Narrative s Bible interpreters biblical scholarship modern theology Interpretation is an intermediary task performed by rational human beings to make human communication possible in difficult cases. In interpreting we first understand the human utterance and then elucidate it for ourselves or someone...

...This chapter presents the project of liberating a concept of religion from social antagonism as the defining problematic of modern theology since the Enlightenment. It identifies two basic strategies by which Christian theology in the modern period has sought to dissociate religion from...

...This chapter sets out the overall argument of the book, pointing to the failure of the doctrine of the exaltation in modern theology, on account of the rise of modern scientific cosmology entailing the loss of heaven, in the early modern period. It is argued that the second scientific revolution...

... Schleiermacher Friedrich societies literary reality real Allard Pierson agnosticism atheism Isaac da Costa Pietism modern theology/modernism supernaturalism Abraham Kuenen Conrad Busken Huet critique of religion According to an obituary written by a colleague, Allard Pierson (1831–1896) had...

... Ignacio Omero Oscar Truth Sojourner Crenshaw Kimberlé Holy Spirit indwelling intersectionality mercy participation knowledge modern theology Mysticism political theology postmodern theology reason theosis I n contemporary intellectual culture, the idea of becoming divine—the idea of theosis...

...Torrance holds that the scientists James Clerk Maxwell and Albert Einstein remind theology of its ontological basis in the Incarnation and the Trinity, a basis largely neglected in modern theology. Torrance's view of the indeterminism of Maxwell's theory of the electromagnetic field as well...

... modern notions of political sovereignty emerge. The second examines the theological and philosophical development of a view of sovereignty as indivisible in dialogue with the work of Hobbes, Rousseau, and Hegel and their modern reception. It maps the counter-movement in modern theology that critiques...

...Contrary to the common view that reverence died in Lambaréné, modern theology, notably in its liberal Protestant and process forms, continues to be indebted to Schweitzer. In the telling confession of Paul Tillich, Schweitzer was with him “all my...