It is easier to rationally
theologize when one is not victimized.
More recently, theologians have become more intentional about the social and cultural contexts within which they
theologize. Following the original example of Jesus and the more recent examples of Liberation Theology, Christian theologians have been moving among the poor, especially the urban poor, in order to discover and articulate a new word about God.
Jesus gave us the Eucharist to do, not a command to
theologize about it.
Studebaker, a Pentecostal Christian, believes he should not be satisfied to leave his personal experience of the Spirit and that of his fellow Pentecostals something to be quiet about but something to
theologize about.
In outlining the context within which Asian American Christians
theologize, the author gives a rather detailed account of the cultural, the historical, and especially the legal factors that conditioned the various waves of Asians coming to America.
Those dichotomies, Hobgood-Oster argues in her final chapter, come through even in some of the theological endeavors that try to wrestle with them, most prominently perhaps in the case of Christian hunters who
theologize about showing mercy to animals slaughtered rather than thinking about animal rights or a symbiotic relationship among all creatures.
Despite this, the Western academy often continues to
theologize and systematize in light of the Reformation, the Counter-reformation, the Enlightenment, modernity, the Holocaust and postmodernity, while often ignoring the effects of imperialism and colonialism.11 R.S.
However, the author remains reserved toward what he perceives as Lowith's tendency to
theologize Heidegger's mode of expression (compare to p.
With Metz, I use the word "revisioning," nevertheless, because, once the priority of the ethical relationship is reestablished, the call to
theologize in a systematic manner reasserts itself.
Third, some authors assert that their modern philosophical presuppositions had already anticipated postmodern themes, but this Jacques-come-lately approach leads to an unresolved tension: While the doctrinal chapters acknowledge the inevitable presence of postmodernity and work from there, the methodology section appears to
theologize in spite of postmodernity in an effort to overcome it.
In a footnote to the Confession, the authors make it clear that "God's reconciliation in Jesus Christ does not influence only humans but all other creatures." (7) Also, one of their study books for the Confession stresses that "Christians shall try to solve the environmental problems on the basis of their faith in God's creation." (8) How, then, in terms of theological method, could the authors of the Confession
theologize their environmental concerns?
Hwang in 1968, modeled the process and became a seminal work toward formalizing contextualization as a way to
theologize about the church in culture.
As such, this article exemplifies how theologians can self-consciously
theologize about the immanent and transcendent power of the Christian myth to work in and through historical events to foster what the Creator God desires for all humanity: liberation from sin, oppression, and death.
They narrowly
theologize to protect the status quo.
58), and the way he uses the Heideggerian expression "openness to Being" seems to
theologize Heidegger's project, suggesting that the person open to Being could receive revelations of sorts from some mysterious entity.
