Theological Construction-- Or Deconstruction?
Author: Xinyuan Li
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780971901612
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Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780971901612
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John D. Caputo
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2007-11-01
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781441200365
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This provocative addition to The Church and Postmodern Culture series offers a lively rereading of Charles Sheldon's In His Steps as a constructive way forward. John D. Caputo introduces the notion of why the church needs deconstruction, positively defines deconstruction's role in renewal, deconstructs idols of the church, and imagines the future of the church in addressing the practical implications of this for the church's life through liturgy, worship, preaching, and teaching. Students of philosophy, theology, religion, and ministry, as well as others interested in engaging postmodernism and the emerging church phenomenon, will welcome this provocative, non-technical work.
Author: Roger E. Olson
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2013-11-01
Total Pages: 723
ISBN-13: 0830864849
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Modernity has been an age of revolutions—political, scientific, industrial and philosophical. Consequently, it has also been an age of revolutions in theology, as Christians attempt to make sense of their faith in light of the cultural upheavals around them, what Walter Lippman once called the "acids of modernity." Modern theology is the result of this struggle to think responsibly about God within the modern cultural ethos. In this major revision and expansion of the classic 20th Century Theology (1992), co-authored with Stanley J. Grenz, Roger Olson widens the scope of the story to include a fuller account of modernity, more material on the nineteenth century and an engagement with postmodernity. More importantly, the entire narrative is now recast in terms of how theologians have accommodated or rejected the Enlightenment and scientific revolutions. With that question in mind, Olson guides us on the epic journey of modern theology, from the liberal "reconstruction" of theology that originated with Friedrich Schleiermacher to the postliberal and postmodern "deconstruction" of modern theology that continues today. The Journey of Modern Theology is vintage Olson: eminently readable, panoramic in scope, at once original and balanced, and marked throughout by a passionate concern for the church's faithfulness to the gospel of Jesus Christ. This will no doubt become another standard text in historical theology.
Author: Ivan Mesa
Publisher:
Published: 2021-04-15
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780999284377
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gerardo Marti
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014-04-22
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0199959897
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner of the Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion The Emerging Church Movement (ECM) is a creative, entrepreneurial religious movement that strives to achieve social legitimacy and spiritual vitality by actively disassociating from its roots in conservative, evangelical Christianity and "deconstructing" contemporary expressions of Christianity. Emerging Christians see themselves as overturning outdated interpretations of the Bible, transforming hierarchical religious institutions, and re-orienting Christianity to step outside the walls of church buildings toward working among and serving others in the "real world." Drawing on ethnographic observation of emerging congregations, pub churches, neo-monastic communities, conferences, online networks, in-depth interviews, and congregational surveys in the US, UK, and Ireland, Gerardo Marti and Gladys Ganiel provide a comprehensive social-scientific analysis of the development and significance of the ECM. Emerging Christians, they find, are shaping a distinct religious orientation that encourages individualism, deep relationships with others, new ideas about the nature of truth, doubt, and God, and innovations in preaching, worship, Eucharist, and leadership.
Author: Joseph Martos
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2015-05-12
Total Pages: 487
ISBN-13: 1498221807
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Catholic sacramental doctrine has lost much of its credibility. Baptized people leave the church, adolescents stop attending shortly after they are confirmed, supposedly indissoluble marriages regularly dissolve, few go to confession, and many do not believe in transubstantiation. Drawing upon his decades-long study of the sacraments, Martos reveals how teachings that seemed rooted in the scriptures and Catholic life have become unmoored from the contexts in which they arose, and why seemingly eternal truths are actually historically relative. After carefully constructing Catholic teaching from the church's own documents, he deconstructs it by demonstrating how biblical passages were misconstrued by patristic authors and how patristic writings were misunderstood by medieval scholastics. The long process of misinterpretation culminated in the dogmatic pronouncements of the Council of Trent, which continues to dominate Catholic thinking about the church's religious ceremonies. If the sacraments are released from their dogmatic baggage, Martos believes that the spiritual realities they symbolize can be celebrated in any human culture without being tied to their traditional rites.
Author: Zac Poonen
Publisher: CFCINDIA Bangalore
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 47
ISBN-13: 8190565893
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: J. Aaron Simmons
Publisher: Duquesne
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780820704579
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Draws on both continental and analytic philosophy to challenge the prominent paradigm of a 'religion without religion' proposed in a deconstructive philosophy of religion; the authors offer instead a philosophical basis for practicing determinate religions that rejects binary options between undecidability and safety, or between skepticism and dogmatism"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Charles E. Winquist
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13:
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