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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Public theology"”.
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Theological Plunderphonics: Public Theology and "the Fragment"
<p>In response to methodological vagueness in public theology, I construct a theory of "the fragment" that enables the public theologian to respond adequately to contemporary exigencies and appropriately to traditional self-understandings. After surveying four streams of public-theological thought …
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A New Public Theology: Sanskrit and Society in Seventeenth-century South India
… Hindu lineages that palpably dominates the public religious life of south India today. As a sectarian religious system, Smarta-Saivism comprises the institution of the Sankaracarya Jagadgurus and the extensive lay populace that has cultivated a relationship of personal devotion with these …
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What is, is what ought to be: Providence and Benjamin Morgan Palmer’s public theology
… studies of the antebellum South, his writings on public theology have not heretofore been carefully examined. This study undertakes to examine Palmer’s public theology. We focus our attention on the relationship between Palmer’s public theology and his understanding of the Reformed doctrine of …
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God’s grace in post-Christendom societies: Edward Schillebeeckx’s Christology for an unapologetic public theology
Contains fulltext : 169430.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Economic polarization and the roles of religion based on the public theology of Max Stackhouse
… insight. For this projects, I will approach public theology as the ethical and theological methodology for this project. The primary theologian I will use is Max Stackhouse, who is interested in viewing religious and social issues through public perspectives. I think that his approach to …
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Religious Liberty in Contemporary Evangelical Social Ethics: An Assessment and Framework for Socio-political Challenges
… a review of the academic literature, evangelical public theology often lacks a systematic, theologically grounded social ethic concerning religious liberty. The resulting impasse is one where religious liberty lacks distinctly evangelical contours. Modern and contemporary religious liberty …
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A critical systematic-ethical appraisal of the ethical design by Miroslav Volf within the South African context
… flourishing can serve as credible resources for public theology in South Africa today. Through a qualitative theological method, the research engages in close textual analysis of Volf’s major works, placing them in sustained dialogue with contextual theological voices and lived South African …
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The Role of Christian Faith in Public Moral Discourse: A Comparison of Selected Works from H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Stanley Hauerwas, and Richard A. McCormick
… understand Christian ethics functioning in the public moral discourse.</p><p> To examine the issue of the role of religiously "informed" ethical judgments within a religiously pluralistic society, this dissertation examines: the ethical methodology of the three ethicists, their view of Christian …
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Classical Trinitarian Theology and the Idolatry of Nationalism: The Doctrine of the Trinity as a Critique of Political Theology
… of the Trinity, in the field of political theology today, should be taken as a critique of the idolatry of nationalism and should point us toward a new theological politics that is informed by the proper worship of the triune God, especially in the Church’s sacred liturgy. Existing …
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The Myth of the Saving Power of Education: A Practical Theology Approach
… between Christianity and the establishment of public education in the United States. Initially, churches invested in schooling to form a Christian society. Today, the public institutions of education operationalize the ideology of meritocracy and promise individual success in the economic …